02-21-2010, 11:14 PM
Frankly I don't like it.
However, as others around the Internet have already chimed in, it's probably a business decision. If Apple is trying to appeal to a more mainstream demographic, unfortunately due to the prudish values of this country (nothing wrong with those values...it's just that I think parents need to be more responsible) they have to do things like this.
I would even like the ability to install things outside the app store without jail breaking (but perhaps that's not a terribly bad thing to do...just a bit more hassle every time an update comes out). However, I can understand this too. The desire to control apps (hence requiring an app store) comes from what I believe is AT&T/Apple's desire to prevent an additional load on their network. For example I heard that something like 90% of the traffic on the Internet is spam/malware. Can you imagine if that happened to the cellular networks?!
However, as others around the Internet have already chimed in, it's probably a business decision. If Apple is trying to appeal to a more mainstream demographic, unfortunately due to the prudish values of this country (nothing wrong with those values...it's just that I think parents need to be more responsible) they have to do things like this.
I would even like the ability to install things outside the app store without jail breaking (but perhaps that's not a terribly bad thing to do...just a bit more hassle every time an update comes out). However, I can understand this too. The desire to control apps (hence requiring an app store) comes from what I believe is AT&T/Apple's desire to prevent an additional load on their network. For example I heard that something like 90% of the traffic on the Internet is spam/malware. Can you imagine if that happened to the cellular networks?!