My (new) Apple Manifesto

So the iPad came out and it is a pretty cool looking, interesting device. Following right on the heels of that was the iphone 4.0 OS announcement with all kinds of goodies and one glaring baddie. The baddie was Apple becoming even more closed by cutting anything that is not developed in Objective C out of the App Store. This change coupled with the random App Store rejections prompted me to rethink my philosophy on buying and using Apple products.

So I have an iPhone, a Mac Book Pro (MBP) and I also have a hackintoshed desktop running Snow Leopard. I like all of them (although for computers, I really just like OS X). I plan on keeping them all. I am also a developer and my philosophy on development is to keep things as open as possible. Therefore the Apple policies really bug me.

My decision (I know you have been holding your proverbial breathe) is NOT to boycott Apple products but to devote no time to building software that runs on their proprietary closed platform. If I want an iPad, or the new iPhone I'll get one, no need for self-denial. I just won't build anything for their systems, everything I build will be a web application of some sort using HTML 5 or whatever is available.

Maybe it is a cop-out, as I might still be feeding the beast, but I am not just going to ignore the best products on the market and by building more rich web applications instead of apps, I'll be opening up the Apple products despite what Apple is trying to do. I certainly will look at all the other options much more thoroughly, as I'd rather be on a more open platform. Lastly, I will definitely hackintosh more machines (I don't expect to buy ANY more Apple laptops or desktops, as I can hackintosh much cheaper and more powerful machines with no loss of OS X goodness).

So that is it, my new Apple manifesto, leave the cheers and jeers in the comments.