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Its funny how easily people forget this - Apple created the first MARKET for mobile apps. Thats openness. Before the iPhone the mobile game was one big scam,
by rjurney 17y ago
Its funny how easily people forget this - Apple created the first MARKET for mobile apps. Thats openness. Before the iPhone the mobile game was one big scam, with someone reaching into your pocket at each and every step in a long chain.
- netcan 17y agoCompared to the various carriers, Apple's a peach.
- rbanffy 17y ago> Apple created the first MARKET for mobile apps. Thats openness. I distinctly remember being able to install software I downloaded (or made) on my Sony Ericsson P-800 a good couple years before the iPhone was announced. In fact, digging a little back, I am sure you could install PalmOS apps on your Treos since the first day they were launched. And anyone could develop for both platforms (actually, there was Java ME too), anyone could host the file you would have to download to install and specify how, and if, you would pay for the download. In fact, many application stores appeared hosting zillions of smartphone apps you could download and install. Apple's market is not open at all. Apple decides if you will be able to sell the fruits of your development work. What Apple did is to corner both users and developers. And that's bad.
- rjurney 17y agoHow many people did? Why so few? No market to speak of. They made things one level free-er, which is the best they could have done given the constraints of the market and the technology. There are issues. They aren't villains for having issues.