Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Apple states that the EFF "seeks through the proposed
exemption to clear the path for those who would hack the iPhone’s
operating system so that a proprietary mobile computing platform
protected by copyright can be transformed into one on which any third
party application can be run."
It claims that this would be done "without
taking account of the undesirable consequences that would ensue from
the transformation."
So the Apple position is essentially that the proposed EFF exemption
would stifle innovation and damage the software market for the iPhone
and ultimately, therefore, the end user.
Meanwhile, the EFF argues
that "Apple's shackling iPhone owners to the iTunes App Store has
nothing to do with protecting Apple software from piracy."
It has everything, according to the EFF at least, do with "limiting competition and innovation on the iPhone platform."
I am inclined to side with Saul Hansell, writing for the New York
Times,
who argues "There’s a real issue at stake, but it isn’t fundamentally
about copyrights."
It is fundamentally about whether Apple should have a legal right to
tell iPhone owners how they can be used and what software can be used
upon What do you think?
David Bass
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