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Your hypothesis comes up against the App Store breaking records each year and making tons of money for those who participate. It's the most profitable mobile st
by FussyZeus 7y ago
Your hypothesis comes up against the App Store breaking records each year and making tons of money for those who participate. It's the most profitable mobile store by a huge margin, and it's not as if these policies are new, this has been more or less the environment it's operated in since it opened.
- logfromblammo 7y agoEthics and economics rarely agree. Slavery was also profitable for slave-owners. Fascism was also profitable for the willing corporate partners of the state. The argumentam ad pecuniam is valid only for the accountants, not for policy-makers.
- scarface74 7y agoReally slavery? What next comparing developing for a mobile platform to Nazism?
- logfromblammo 7y agoLiterally my next sentence after the slavery one. Finding counterexamples to the "profitable == okay" argument is really, really easy.
- marcus_holmes 7y agoNot all those who participate. The vast (overwhelming) majority of app developers don't make a dime from it. A tiny, tiny minority make some side cash from it. A vanishingly small set of maybe a few hundred people maybe earn enough from it to make a living doing it (not developing apps for other people, but developing their own app products).