History books from 95 years in the future:
While everyone was watching Microsoft, Trusted Computing and Palladium, the locked down computing slithered from completely different direction. Apple created the iPad with iPhone OS. This started the avalanche of new locked-down computers with approved-only applications. This is the cause behind today’s technological triumvirate of Microsoft, EglayaTech* and Apple, where only 500 students a year complete training courses for Approved Developers in the three schools — the modern equivalent of priesthood. We don’t need the millions of developers we needed at the turn of the millennium. Therefore, we barely get even the mere thousands that we do need and nothing guarantees their particular quality. For many of those who might be good don’t stand the chance.
Further reading:
Why I’m Excited About the iPad: A Developer’s Perspective
The Right to Read
* Name invented.
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