Is Apple becoming the Microsoft of mobile? (WIRED article)

[sorrowsfountain]

disolitude said:

sorrowsfountain said:
what a bunch of crock if a developer wants to make an ap for an android then make one noone is stopping them....if a developer makes a game for the ps3 guess what it wont play on the wii without having to be modified....why should aps be any different?

Did you even read this article? My money is no as your post doesn't have anything to do with the article. Apple is blocking a lot more than multiplatform apps...

i read it and thought and still think my post is relevant but since you think it was in left field i will state it in a different way. 

the article said this: The rule would effectively prohibit developers from using third-party code to create iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch apps that can easily be converted into apps for competing platforms including Android, Windows Mobile and Palm's Web OS.(which was the only part i was actually addressing)

i think apple should be free to require a developer to use whatever code apple wants them to use. why should apple be forced to use open content programming?its not  apples job to make it easy on a developer to make aps for the competition. if a developer doesnt like apples policy they are free not to make aps for apple products.

the article said this: Apple's new policy also prohibits third-party analytics tools from being inserted into apps, which could make it impossible for competing ad networks to serve advertisements on the iPhone OS (my first post had nothing to do with this part of the article but i will offer my thoughts on this too)

once again why should apple cater to competing ad networks it is an apple product

so what exactly is apple doing that should so adversely affect the public that the government needs to step in to protect the public? nothing that i see anywhere in that article. its a bunch of crock