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There's no way they could go back on this now. The outcry would be ten times larger than it was when they first restricted it.
by mcav 16y ago
There's no way they could go back on this now. The outcry would be ten times larger than it was when they first restricted it.
- hswolff 16y agoAgreed. You give a mouse a cookie, and then he'll want a glass of water. By giving up this ground it would be near impossible and close to PR-suicide to commit any future retraction. About time for sure.
- points 16y ago10 * 0.00001 is still pretty miniscule. Uproar from developers is meh. End users don't care. Apple can do what they want with the app store. If a few whiney devs decide to not play any more, there's an infinite supply of other devs who will.
- mcav 16y agoIt's more than whiney developers now. It was one thing when Apple never made clear the guidelines and chose to reject apps; now that they've made guidelines very explicit, going back on them would very publicly damage other companies: Large companies, like Adobe and Oracle, who would be very upset as well if Apple reneged on this change of policy. They won't go back on it. Not now.