If you'd like to hear some good brainwashing techniques first hand, walk around your neighborhood on Sunday morning until you find a building that nicely dressed people seem to be congregating into. Go inside and see what they have to say.

As far as I know, only apps installed through the app store will be allowed to use the notification center. I very much doubt Apple is going to allow this.

I said "decent."

As promised....

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Because unfortunately nobody else is making decent systems.

1) App store + apple-signed apps are the only things you will be able to install by default

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App stores are fine, but you're missing the point. App stores are NOT FINE if they're the only place you can install applications from.

Certainly. But their behavior is not consistent with trying to get a handle on malware. Their behavior is consistent with trying to get 30% of every developer's revenue. At least on iOS. And with recent developments the future of OS X looks cloudy as well.

I only said things look to be going in that direction, a hair-brained tinfoil hat theory that Giz just echoed here: [gizmodo.com] and is supported by the evidence of what they have done in their two most recent OS updates (Lion and Mountain Lion).

Is there something, in particular, you have a problem with? I talked about where Apple is tightening their grip, referenced closed-system issues that are current with the iOS app store, and speculated about what this might mean for the future, along with the hope that it doesn't.

With Apple's claim of combatting malware with Gatekeeper, they are addressing a problem that does not exist. Or at least it is not widespread nor is it something a lot of people are complaining about.

Recent OS X updates all seem to be moving toward an iOS-style walled garden development environment. Apple is salivating after that 30% they get when you buy something from the app store. Now with Mountain Lion they've actually included the mechanism to prevent you from installing anything from outside the app store…

Now that they are charging less for OS upgrades, they're going to release them more often. Queue the look of disapproval...

Because you can't always take the photo correctly in the first place. That's the entire reason that Photoshop exists.

Promote button not working, so I'm commenting to promote this because it's awesome.

So the "ruining the iconic design" argument doesn't hold true as long as I let Colorware do it?

Here's a few I made within the first couple minutes playing with cinemagram: [imgur.com]

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