That's ridiculous.
Apple should rightly be roasted for this kind of bullying. There's nothing about pinch-to-expand that would threaten Apple's control over the user experience in any way.
Apple should rightly be roasted for this kind of bullying. There's nothing about pinch-to-expand that would threaten Apple's control over the user experience in any way.
But you have to wonder why you would want in at all, if your apps are going to be competitionally crippled against Apple's apps.
Illegal to use native look and feel is pretty ludicrous. But it's their game.
Apple 's attitude of power is therefore ridiculous, they seem to think that their tablet PC is something only they can develop and master, however it's not. Soon there will be millions of free and of equivalent quality Tablet PC's around and Apple 's iPad will only constitute a minority of them.
N.B. Moblin merged with Maemo to become MeeGo -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
If nothing else, some non-US company is going to come up with their own tablet tailored to the local language and use the dual advantages of openness and cultural expertise to trounce them in those markets. In face several companies could do this at the same time. It's very easy to see how Apple could lose market leadership on the international stage this way.