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It seems a pretty rational argument to me. I have no idea why you're being downvoted.

• mechanical_fish 17y ago
  Because it's a zeroth-order, zero-thought mantra of an argument? A childish one-dimensional approach to a multidimensional question? Among other things: There is no "market". There are markets. There is a market for hardcore pron. There is a market for child-safe web surfing. There is a market for violent games. There is a market for nonviolent games. There is a market for a device you can be seen using in a corporate boardroom. There is a market for a device you can give to your mom. There is a market for a device that makes Steve Jobs proud. Many of these markets are mutually exclusive. Some of these markets are bigger than others. Some of them have higher prestige. Some of them have much higher margins.
  • aditya 17y ago
    So that's easily solvable using a filter of some sort. What's stopping apple from adding a filter that says: "Child-safe" but allowing every app in to the app store, so that you can turn the filter off and browse whatever it is that you want. By market I really meant, people, as opposed to referring to a free market of some sort. I think a free market would be great if there was some mechanism to allow the good stuff to bubble up to the top.
    • GHFigs 17y ago
      What's stopping apple from adding a filter that says: "Child-safe"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store#Application_ratings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store#Application_ratings
    • Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
      What's stopping Apple is the cost-benefit analysis -- implementing and policing a filtering system to replace the current approval process (especially policing it) costs Apple more in time, money and complexity than it benefits them. The App Store, like the iTunes store, exists solely to move Apple's hardware. The calculus isn't "will opening up the App Store please the handful of developers who refuse to operate under its current restrictions", it's "will opening up the App Store significantly increase sales of iPods/iPhones/iPads." I have yet to see a convincing argument as to how opening up the App Store would do that.