no idea of the history, but it sounds like you're agreeing with chamath's take, despite whatever opinion you may have of him. just seems like he is guilty of th

no idea of the history, but it sounds like you're agreeing with chamath's take, despite whatever opinion you may have of him. just seems like he is guilty of the same behavior he's associating to facebook. one quip: > Apple is strict and super-weird about some of their rules, but they’re consistent. And it’s in that consistency that they’ve been able to build a large, dominant platform. When people start to see cracks in that consistency — such as the recent Hey drama — both developers AND people within the company immediately freak out, and some statement is made (whether it’s what the developers want to hear is another matter). They’re also super consistent with most of their APIs and their timetables, which further encourages investment. As someone who has dabbled in app store development from time to time, none of this seems to be true. Apple is inconsistent with application of their rules and their rules are also internally inconsistent from case to case, especially with regards to what apps are allowed on the platform. But there is something interesting in there -- was it the developer experience that drew developers to their platform originally or something else? Not sure offhand.