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In short, no competition among app stores means no competition for the license terms that apply to iPhone developers. What is impacting developers is the lack
by sublemonic 17y ago
In short, no competition among app stores means no competition for the license terms that apply to iPhone developers.
What is impacting developers is the lack of competition between the iPhone and other mobile devices. Apple's app store is winning because iPhone is winning. This will not always be the case.
- loup-vaillant 17y agoWhy do you assume that a phone should have no more than one app store?
- loup-vaillant 17y agoOK, someone here apparently thinks that having 2 or more app stores for a smart-phone is obviously silly. A smart-phone is a computer. A damn computer. Would you want to have only one app store for your desktop? Like, you have to get Microsoft's seal of approval before you can publish any program at all? Would you like to be unable to run Open Office? GNU/Linux? The "only one app store" thing is good old "Trusted Computing" (I should say "treacherous", by the way). Now, anyone, please prove me that the size of a computer is significant enough to warrant lock-down in some cases, and not in others.