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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
by 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 agoWhat'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 agoWhat'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.