Goofball Jones

Next time you hear someone talking about Apple’s “Walled Garden”, think of this:

You come into Apples walled garden…it’s a nice place. Big variety of plants and flowers and bushes and trees. Very clean place, very peaceful, very safe…calm…sunny, albiet with a lot of rules. HEY, get off the grass buddy, can you see that sign? HEY miss, pick up that soda can you just threw down and put it in the trash receptacle right over there…what the hell. YOU KIDS stop rough-housing and play nice!

But then people walking by Apple’s walled garden go “there’s a better park just down the street. It’s kind of cool…there’s no law there telling you what you can and can’t do. You don’t have “The Man” breathing down your necks. Go check it out”. 

So you head down to the the Open Park. Yes, look there, you can do whatever you want! Look, that couple is having sex right in the open in front of everyone. Look, that group of hoodlums is harassing everyone and throwing their beer cans everywhere. Oh my, all the plants are dying from everyone openly peeing on them. Oh sheesh, what did I just step in? That’s disgusting! Wait! Someone just picked my pocket….got all my cash and credit cards…WTF! Wha? This guy is saying I got a “real purty mouth…”

BTW, keep in mind that Apple’s walled garden is only for the apps that run on their devices…fire up Safari on the iPhone or iPad and you too can go visit Open Park and pee on the trees like everyone else.