Readit NewsI've considered an iPhone due to the recent Google announcement w.r.t. code signing but it's still too walled off for me. They need to open up access to third party stores and third party browser engines.
EDIT: yes I understand that we live in a capitalist system that is maximizing profit. My argument is that long term they're going to lose this battle seeing as the EU and Japan have already forced them to play ball. There are two options: remain stagnant and collect app store rent as long as possible or learn to be competitive in this new environment.
At a previous company we hired a lot of junior engineers with the idea that our relatively high pay and reasonably good work would help us build a strong generation of seniors a few years down the road. What we mostly found was that we spent a ton of money and our sr eng time training and sharpening them, only for the vast majority of them to leave after 1 to 3 years. As I've gotten more into hiring, it's not at all surprising to me now as this is just clearly in the culture.
To be clear I'm not blaming the employees, in fact I blame ridiculously stupid HR practices for the last 20 years because they built a structure in which the only way to get a raise was to leave the company, and that was also often the best way to get promoted too.
