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The real evil I see with Apple is the App Store. It's very anti-competitive. Since you can only sell ipod/ipad applications through their store, they own a mono
by dnsworks 17y ago
The real evil I see with Apple is the App Store. It's very anti-competitive. Since you can only sell ipod/ipad applications through their store, they own a monopoly on it.
This is problematic because it's a model that will never
allow any competition. If I wanted to start a store that takes only a 5% or 10% commission of every ipod/ipad application sale, I am unable to do this.
Apple is preventing me from selling other people's software more competitively than they can. Imagine if Walmart told all video game manufacturers that they were no longer allowed to distribute through any other channel besides Walmart.
- philwelch 17y agoThat's a bad analogy. A better analogy is, "Imagine if Microsoft told all video game manufacturers that they were no longer allowed to sell Xbox games without having them approved by...oh, wait." (If console games were small enough for digital download to be feasible, do you really think Microsoft and Sony and Nintendo would let you buy them at every damn store? Would they even bother putting drives in the machines anymore?)
- dnsworks 17y agoDon't you get the feeling that Apple is trying to phase our their OS X model towards a more iphone-like ecosphere where they can own everything? I do.
- philwelch 17y agoIf they had done anything with the Mac, then maybe. But they haven't, and they have little reason to if only because they need to sell Macs to iPhone/iPad developers.