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The solution is fairly simple: just stop releasing software on that platform. There are millions of customers on more open platforms, so there's really no need

The solution is fairly simple: just stop releasing software on that platform. There are millions of customers on more open platforms, so there's really no need to support them anyway.

penagwin 10y ago
I don't care about specific numbers, let's use some from androidauthority.com . ios apps make more revenue then Google Play apps. So what you say? Well you make a LOT more revenue with BOTH gPlay + Appstore then EITHER on their own. http://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-vs-the-apple-app-store-601836/ http://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-vs-the-app...
Retra 10y ago
All of life's problems are simple when suicide is your backup plan.
- JonRB 10y ago
  I am definitely stealing that
- megous 10y ago
  Boycott is a valid response no matter how much you try to make false analogies. Pulling app out of app store is by no means equivalent to suicide. At most you change your business.
  - vecter 10y ago
    Right, like Uber, Snapchat, Facebook, Clash of Clans, Pinterest, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Waze, Shazam, Tinder, Match, YouTube, and basically every other app out there pulling out of the App Store would not be suicide. "At most", those companies would just have to "change their businesses".
    - intrasight 10y ago
      If all those companies did pull out, then it would be the end of Apple.
      - vecter 10y ago
        Absolutely not. Apple was fine long before these companies came into existence, and Apple will long outlast these companies. New companies would come in to fill the spaces these companies will have left in days.
Razengan 10y ago
As a user/consumer, I like this. It reduces potentially unpleasant "surprises." Apple have curbed a lot of obnoxious developer practices (and enforced good ones, like the move to 64-bit not long ago) and they, along with Microsoft, probably the only ones with enough muscle to be able to do that.

The solution is fairly simple: just stop releasing software on that platform. There are millions of customers on more open platforms, so there's really no need to support them anyway.

penagwin 10y ago

I don't care about specific numbers, let's use some from androidauthority.com . ios apps make more revenue then Google Play apps. So what you say? Well you make a LOT more revenue with BOTH gPlay + Appstore then EITHER on their own. http://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-vs-the-apple-app-store-601836/ http://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-vs-the-app...

Retra 10y ago

All of life's problems are simple when suicide is your backup plan.

JonRB 10y ago
I am definitely stealing that
megous 10y ago
Boycott is a valid response no matter how much you try to make false analogies. Pulling app out of app store is by no means equivalent to suicide. At most you change your business.
- vecter 10y ago
  Right, like Uber, Snapchat, Facebook, Clash of Clans, Pinterest, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Waze, Shazam, Tinder, Match, YouTube, and basically every other app out there pulling out of the App Store would not be suicide. "At most", those companies would just have to "change their businesses".
  - intrasight 10y ago
    If all those companies did pull out, then it would be the end of Apple.
    - vecter 10y ago
      Absolutely not. Apple was fine long before these companies came into existence, and Apple will long outlast these companies. New companies would come in to fill the spaces these companies will have left in days.

Razengan 10y ago

As a user/consumer, I like this. It reduces potentially unpleasant "surprises." Apple have curbed a lot of obnoxious developer practices (and enforced good ones, like the move to 64-bit not long ago) and they, along with Microsoft, probably the only ones with enough muscle to be able to do that.