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> There is provable value in what Apple is doing, or the app store would not be a success. There is provable value in what Apple is doing, by curating a higher
by ethbr0 5y ago
> There is provable value in what Apple is doing, or the app store would not be a success.
There is provable value in what Apple is doing, by curating a higher quality and better integrated ecosystem than Google/Android offers. Polish which is funded by profits from the App Store.
On the other hand, the App Store's success also benefits from full capture of all iOS users and network effects of releasing when it did.
> Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too.
Some people think you shouldn't be allowed to put cocaine in soda, even if it's tasty. (To use a 1920s metaphor)
- netizen-936824 5y agoI have a sneaking suspicion that cocaine wasn't in soda purely for the flavor