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True of anything anywhere. Apple is not only your platform, but your competition. Utility apps for Windows have been getting squashed by new versions of Windo
by dpcan 15y ago
True of anything anywhere. Apple is not only your platform, but your competition.
Utility apps for Windows have been getting squashed by new versions of Windows for years and years.
- I used to run tools to move items around in my Task Bar. Now I can just do that in Windows 7.
- Or add-ons that told you the resolution of a photo without having to open it. Now you just roll your mouse over it.
- Red-Eye elimination and other basic photo functions showed up in Vista.
It's the way of the world. If you are a utility, you may become standard issue.
- throwaway32 15y agowith such windows apps, you don't need to worry about Microsoft removing you from the only approved sales conduit.
- jamesaguilar 15y agoNo evidence whatsoever that Apple is going to do this with the affected app developers. And it seems like a pretty unlikely move.
- throwaway32 15y agowhy, they have removed apps for "duplicating iOS functionality" before.
- exogen 15y agoHave they removed any, or simply not approved them in the first place? (Honest question.) It would be pretty unexpected for them to be retroactively banned.
- kenjackson 15y agoApple removed Camera+ after it was in the app store. They removed them since they found a way to use the volume button as a shutter. Welcome iOS5. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/08/apple-removes-camera-iphone-app-from-the-app-store-after-developer-reveals-hack-to-enable-hidden-feature.html http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/08/apple-removes-camera-ipho... The reason Apple gives is priceless: Your application cannot be added to the App Store because it uses iPhone volume buttons in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion. Of course, now it's standard. Say cheese.
- jamesaguilar 15y agoThat removal was not for duplicating existing functionality, as you correctly point out. So it's not really germane.
- throwaway32 15y agohttp://www.riverturn.com/blog/?p=455 http://www.riverturn.com/blog/?p=455
- jamesaguilar 15y agoNever that I know of when the functionality came first from the app then from iOS. This accusation is outlandish FUD-raking, not intelligent discussion.
- dpcan 15y agoThat may be true, but what's the difference? If there's no reason to go looking for an app in the first place, it won't get found anyway.
- josephcooney 15y agoFor years Microsoft was/has been prevented from squeezing out 3rd party developers by the DoJ/Consent Decree. Why do you think Microsoft gives away an anti-virus product that you have to download and install separately? Because if they bundled it with Windows anti-virus vendors would lawyer up. http://jcooney.net/post/2010/05/03/Why-doesnt-feature-X-exist-in-Windows.aspx http://jcooney.net/post/2010/05/03/Why-doesnt-feature-X-exis...