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> I don't understand why [large company] can't [do simple thing]... The answer to questions like that is always money. Apple have a monopoly on selling apps on

> I don't understand why [large company] can't [do simple thing]... The answer to questions like that is always money. Apple have a monopoly on selling apps on that run on Apple hardware. There is no measurable short-term benefit to them from making the user experience better. In fact they probably figure it'd hurt revenue. As it stands the app store has about 20 slots that make serious money. Every app company wants in those slots and will do anything for it, eg give up 30% of their revenue and indulge various forms of payola. Apple have created an artificial scarcity and it makes them something like 10 billion a year. And thanks to the monopoly enforced by crypto, there is no possibility of a competitor forcing them to change. It's the perfect cash cow. Why screw up a good thing?

cryptoz 9y ago
Because, over time, it might not be a cash cow as other stores like Play Store improve and innovate. Your post reads like, why should Microsoft invest in IE after v6? No short term benefit? As if. 5 years is still short term and if Apple can't learn from Microsoft's mistakes then it deserves to lose the market share and eventually the profit.
- dingo_bat 9y ago
  To Apple's credit, 90% of iPhone users won't switch to Android no matter what. So Samsung and Google can innovate as much as they like, apple's user base is not going anywhere.
  - Feniks 9y ago
    That's the whole point of Apple. Vendor lock in.
- BoorishBears 9y ago
  If Microsoft could have blocked all 3rd party browsers, they could probably still be coasting on IE6 2017 Edition today.
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syllogism 9y ago
That's silly. If Apple ran a more efficient market, users would buy more apps, developers would make more apps, and Apple would make more money. Large companies don't always do a good job of simple things, for all sorts of banal reasons related to specific people in management, organisational politics, etc.

cryptoz 9y ago

Because, over time, it might not be a cash cow as other stores like Play Store improve and innovate. Your post reads like, why should Microsoft invest in IE after v6? No short term benefit? As if. 5 years is still short term and if Apple can't learn from Microsoft's mistakes then it deserves to lose the market share and eventually the profit.

dingo_bat 9y ago
To Apple's credit, 90% of iPhone users won't switch to Android no matter what. So Samsung and Google can innovate as much as they like, apple's user base is not going anywhere.
- Feniks 9y ago
  That's the whole point of Apple. Vendor lock in.
BoorishBears 9y ago
If Microsoft could have blocked all 3rd party browsers, they could probably still be coasting on IE6 2017 Edition today.
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syllogism 9y ago

That's silly. If Apple ran a more efficient market, users would buy more apps, developers would make more apps, and Apple would make more money. Large companies don't always do a good job of simple things, for all sorts of banal reasons related to specific people in management, organisational politics, etc.