Apple as Big Brother

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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 26, 2012 at 04:45 PM

I have a license for a nice little Mac-based information manager called Yojimbo. I just received a note from the developer (Bare Bones) relating to changes forced on the application by Apple policies. This particularly stuck out to me:

*** Please note that with the release of the new version,
Yojimbo will *only* be available in the Mac App Store. This is
because Apple has decided that any applications that use iCloud
for sync may only be distributed through the Mac App Store.
Therefore, customers who have bought Yojimbo directly from us
and wish to use iCloud to sync data will have to purchase a new
version of Yojimbo from the Mac App Store.

That’s almost enough to get me to go back to Windows, and is certainly tilting me in that direction. And I’m sure Apple’s grip on what you can and can not do with their computers is only going to tighten. The company that once had the slogan “Think. Different.” will soon be coming up with a new one: “Think. As. We. Dictate.”

Steve Z.

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