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Originally Posted by stustaff
you repeatedly complain about how apple make it hard for people making and investing money in apps without even knowing if Apple will approve it! because they could end up with a product they cant sell... well its EXACTLY the same for any of the other consumer type devices that 'apps' can be sold for.
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No, it's not. If you go to Microsoft or Sony with a proposal for a game, they'll look at it and say "yes" or "no", subject to you following a thick book of technical requirements. You then make the software, they check it against their TRC's and then approve it. If they won't, you find out very early on in the process.
The iPod/Pad? You have to make the software, then submit it, and only THEN you find out if it's been accepted or not -
after you've already created the entire program.
These situations are not equivalent!
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its unfair to confuse apps and games with 'software'(eg programs that run on an actual computer with an OS) its a different thing.
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And again...no, it's not. Software is software is software. The unfairness is when you try and say a walled garden somehow makes the device behind it "different". It's not. Moreover, most devices are not locked down, and the
trend is for more and not less openness in development.
It's AOL vs the Internet, all over again.