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> What Jobs should have done then was not ban apps by language, but ban "shitty" apps. Whatever you think of the app store rules, you can't seriously be sugges

• elblanco 16y ago
  No, not at all. I think the point I'm trying to make is that what lots of people are thinking is that the rule change was to prevent apps of low quality in the store while what Apple was probably actually thinking with the rule was "let's make it hard to put apps on competing platforms". In other words, the argument that it to improve the app quality is a red herring -- it has nothing to do with that. And as you rightly pointed out, the new rule is not even a sane proxy for a policy of "no shitty apps" (which is even more absurd). The only rational business reason is to raise the level of effort of cross platform development such that it's not worth it to spend the same effort to write an Android app with that platform's much smaller user base and lower average cost of purchase.