BlackBerryhas jumped into the debate on net neutralitythe agency that BlackBerry does just about everything these days : ass - rearward . Last night , BlackBerry CEO John Chen wrote a blog post that contorted the received definition of final neutrality into a complicated pretzel of crazy , take a firm stand that Apple and Netflix are go against the principle of nett neutrality by … not making iMessage and Netflix available for BlackBerry client .
Fromthe grim night of Chen ’s soul :
Unfortunately , not all content and applications providers have embrace openness and neutrality . Unlike BlackBerry , which appropriate iPhone users to download and use our BBM service , Apple does not allow BlackBerry or Android exploiter to download Apple ’s iMessage message service . Netflix , which has forcefully advocate for common carrier neutrality , has discriminated against BlackBerry customers by resist to make its streaming movie servicing available to them . Many other applications providers similarly offer religious service only to iPhone and Android substance abuser . This dynamic has create a two - tiered wireless broadband ecosystem , in which iPhone and Android users are able to get at far more content and applications than customers using devices running other operating system . These are precisely the kind of discriminatory pattern that neutrality counselor-at-law have criticized at the carrier storey .
Therefore , neutrality must be mandate at the software and content layer if we truly want a free , opened and non - discriminative cyberspace . All wireless broadband customers must have the ability to access any lawful app and subject they choose , and applications / content providers must be interdict from know apart based on the client ’s wandering operating system .
This proposal , first of all , has nothing to do with net neutrality . Chen is say that app developer should be obligate to develop apps for every mobile weapons platform . Nevermind that create an app for one operating system is meter - consuming and expensive , which is why many apps debut on only iOS or Android .
Insisting that app creators make version of their products for every single operating system is comparable to require that a baker supply shekels to EVERY bakery in town . Uh , no . The baker can sell bread to whoever he want . Maybe he does n’t require to deal staff of life to some nasty previous bakery in Ontario full of rats . He does n’t have to ! And that ’s not unjust and it ’s not a assault of a rationale of neutrality . That is how business works , whether it ’s pelf - colligate or in nomadic technical school .
Look , it ’d be great if every app was uncommitted for every platform . It would also be big if the gismo computer memory by my house sold Flamin ’ Hot Cheetos ™ , because they are yummy . But not everything is usable at every possible outlet that it could potentially be available . Heaven is not for real .
Now , BlackBerry IS a Canadian company , so I ’d say that maybe thing are just a lil different up northward and they ’re disconnected . But I live in Toronto and every unconstipated Canadian individual I ’ve babble to about final neutrality grasps the construct and know it does n’t mean that tech party should be forced to educate apps for a dying platform . This is either wilfully ignorant or a truly gung - ho troll .
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