Wait… that’s just wrong

15 May, 2010

A post at Six Revisions analyzes the Apple-Flash thing (because, really, we need more opinions on this) and includes this little nugget:

As far as not being able to use Flash 5 to create apps for Apple’s App Store goes, it’s déjà vu all over again. Apple tried something similar years ago when it kept its OS proprietary (except for a brief flirtation with licensing in the mid ’90s before Jobs came back).

The result is that while their line of computers is incredibly profitable, they still command a small share of the market.

(emphasis mine)

This reads with the insinuation that if Apple didn’t use a proprietary OS it would have greater market share… and it says this immediately after noting the failed clone experiment that played a large part in the company’s financial issues that brought Jobs back to begin with! When has Apple NOT been proprietary?

(The article also talks about the beginning of competition between Apple, Microsoft and Google - as if we aren’t already years deep in that conflict - but I will let that pass).

Being proprietary is what lets Apple do great things, and suggesting that they mess with that is a terrible idea.