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What about the history of mobile apps would cause you to come to those conclusions? I just don't see that at all.
by glhaynes 16y ago
What about the history of mobile apps would cause you to come to those conclusions? I just don't see that at all.
- brudgers 16y agoIn the early oughts, I loaded third party Palm apps onto my Visor...you could even buy shrink wrapped apps at Office Depot. More recently, I've downloaded Symbian and Java apps onto my Nokia. Apple's App Store's model is an exception to the historical distribution. Right now everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. But there's nothing special about mobile-apps. They're still a commodity. Apple can probably keep the iPhone locked down and continue it's app store...but ultimately other companies benefit more from differentiation than from "me too." But even Apple is showing the strains of deviation from their core competency. Of course, I could be wrong and Amazon will continue to just sell books.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoI think he's drawing from other histories: shrink-wrap apps, web-apps, games, etc. The evidence appears to be on his side. People like curated gardens well enough, but they don't like the entire universe to be a curated garden.