Landguy on 04 June 2014
Ouch, what a step back for Apple.
They clearly are going even further down the path of becoming irrelevant. The writer of this article misses the whole point here. By making it even more proprietary, it hurts Apple long term. Already, Apple products are shrinking dramatically in market share. If Apple makes it even harder to port things to their system or out to other systems, they only increase the chance that they become the "second" system that gets the app, not the first. Apple had 70-80% of the market for a few years, and the development community had to give them first position on everything. Now, they are less than 40% of the tablet market and less than 30% of the smartphone market.
It is near the end of the end....
