{"id":853,"date":"2012-09-29T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T15:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=853"},"modified":"2012-09-29T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T15:48:39","slug":"app-ocalypse-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2012\/09\/29\/app-ocalypse-when\/","title":{"rendered":"App-ocalypse: When?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft confirms that Windows 8 the-interface-formerly-known-as-Metro apps will <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_8-windows_store\/will-windows-8-allow-developers-to-post-metro-apps\/9f28242b-4943-4ca2-bf63-d6f9b3a5b35f\"> only be available through the Windows Store. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add to this the fact that Apple&#8217;s OSX Mountain Lion is by default <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2012\/02\/16\/os-x-mountain-lion-limits-apps-to-mac-app-store-signed-apps-by-default\/\">restricting downloads to the App Store<\/a>, although so far that default can be overridden.<\/p>\n<p>There is ongoing controversy about the implementation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface\">UEFI<\/a> boot loaders, with Microsoft mandating to hardware vendors that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarefreedom.org\/blog\/2012\/jan\/12\/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM\/\"> ARM-based machines only boot to their OS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These are signs that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2010\/04\/12\/the-two-trajectories-of-device-convergence\/\">the Two Trajectories of Device Convergence<\/a> are beginning to collide, the fronts are ever advancing, and the Closed side is preparing its arsenal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> has for some time been waxing cogently on the long term implications of <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/12\/27\/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html\">the coming war on general-purpose computing<\/a>, and recent and current trends seem to support his prognostication.<\/p>\n<p>Am I over-analyzing or is that distant choppers I hear over the hill?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft confirms that Windows 8 the-interface-formerly-known-as-Metro apps will only be available through the Windows Store. Add to this the fact that Apple&#8217;s OSX Mountain Lion is by default restricting downloads to the App Store, although so far that default can be overridden. There is ongoing controversy about the implementation of UEFI boot loaders, with Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}