Darn it... I just watched that the other day and was truly amazed.
It was all lies, then? Or mostly lies?
I told myself a year or two ago that I was going to stop watching TED talks because of their misinformation problems, and this was the first one I had watched since. Fool me once...
While certainly a seemingly off-color (no pun intended, I swear) remark, this is an interesting topic that came to my attention during the London Olympic games.
Of the ~80 men who have run a sub-10 second 100m dash, only one or two of them have been Caucasian, though Jason Fried was not among the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-second_barrier#Ethnicity
Well if corporations are people and Apple is the biggest company ever (in terms of market capitalization), who are their peers?
It's kind of funny that at least in one arena the big players are accountable to average Joes and Josephines, even if those people disagree with me on certain patents' validity.
I think it's more likely they'll add ever more developer hurdles and effectively ghettoize unsigned apps than ever just flip a switch and announce "App Store only!"
Unless they change gears and hype up OS XI as a game-changing iOS/OS X merger.
They've certainly taken some steps that are perfect to tease out slippery slope paranoia. It would be a bit scary if there weren't easily accessible alternative OSes.
