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Originally Posted by stonetools
Well, what you call parasitism, others might simply call-capitalism 
Again, If Apple cannot get away with it, they will certainly pay. I think the vehemence of the reaction to my posts, including the many tasteless ad hominems, is because people think that Apple CAN "get away" with it. |
People have moved onto commenting about you and hazarding a guess as to who employs you due to the very simple point that in this whole discussion all you have done is parrot apple talking points and completely ignore the far more normal perspective which is that of a consumer.
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"The App Store will certainly fail because Apple doesn't know what its doing and Steve Jobs is a megalomaniac"
"The Apple policy toward developers is UNCONSCIONABLE. Its too much restrictive".
"There is NO way that developers can make a living giving up 30 per cent of their revenue to Apple. Developers will abandon the platform in droves and Apple's customers will suffer"
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You aren't comparing like with like, the situation for developers back then and for some magazines now is that they aren't dealing with fixed costs so could make the trade-off for a smaller chunk of a larger market, but that simply isn't the case for many of the companies affected by this new change such as amazon, b&n and most of the streaming services because those all have fixed charges and other companies (the publishers and music industry) who have no actual incentive to renegotiate.
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The phrase " There's an app for that" has become as much a part of everyday speech as "software", "PC", and "Google it".
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Weird really, when I hear that horrible phrase "there's an app for that" I tend to think that its just another admission of the limitation of the ios platform and to a lesser extent the other main mobile platforms that so much basic functionality is missing by default that apps are needed to patch the gaps.