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Of course Apple is free to do whatever with it's platform, but it's a little suicidal to change the rules out from under the people who make your platform worth
by pmichaud 17y ago
Of course Apple is free to do whatever with it's platform, but it's a little suicidal to change the rules out from under the people who make your platform worthwhile by creating its content. A couple more shifts like that might cause a big migration away from the app store by companies who don't think it's such a great investment when the rug might be pulled out arbitrarily and without warning.
- swannodette 17y agoYou mean a big migration away from the app store of companies that make boob jiggling apps.
- pmichaud 17y agoNot at all. What I mean is that if I invest in a platform, I expect the rules to stay roughly the same so I can hope to make a fairly predictable return on my investment. If Apple creates a track record for itself of saying things like: Even though there are X,XXX companies developing porn apps (which we approved), we're going to stop allowing those arbitrarily, right now. Or what about: gee, we'd really like to get in on retail banking, so money related apps, those are out. Or how about, we want to partner with acme social media company, so any apps that interact with facebook, those are out. My point is that they can do this once to the porn guys and just piss the porn guys off. If they do it again, to another group, that will and should scare the shit out of the entire developer population, because who's next?