Maybe, but they still raise a vaild point. If i want to read about windows 7 on my mac apple can't stop but i'm also not just going to sell the mac because I read an article.
This is a pretty epic display of insecurity on Apple's part.
Insecurity: different issue entirely, though I generally agree. Mobile platforms are an extremely active battleground right now, though.
Not sure what the valid point would be. "Where this is going"? It's not going anywhere. A similar rule exists in the Mac App Store guidelines... both of which merely mean you can't cite other OSes in the app store. The app can internally / on their site advertise that they're also on Windows, just not in the store. It's not a very surprising requirement, as it's a locked-to-a-single-OS store, and it's easy to get around if your app has any purpose aside from advertising the competition.
Putting the magazine as an app on the store would be nigh-impossible, because you couldn't mention its primary purpose, but it'd likely get by with no issue if such a thing were achieved without being misleading.
Mobile platforms are an extremely active battleground right now, though.
The mind boggles that we're in a situation where arguments like this are put forward. No offence to you specifically Groxx, but... I feel like Apple has exiled us all to crazy land.
What, you mean because for the first time ever we actually have not one, but two decent, modern operating systems for consumer-marketed phones? Both of which make applications (a HUGE source of revenue for Apple) simple to develop and simple to buy? Palm's WebOS never really took off strongly, and Blackberries are... blackberries. Good in some ways, bad in others, and full of zero competition in their market.
Judging from the wikipedia disambiguation page, he is probably referring to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, although I always thought they were more into AK-47s than into cell phones. (Cue dramatic orchestral music while an PLO commando rips into an apple store, throwing iPads into the air as shooting targets, or whaterver imagery the GP wanted to convey...)
But yeah, I concurr, gratuitous use of arcane TLAs can be annoying.
This strikes me as flamebait-generation and little else.