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Alarmist fluff. And every app sold for the iPhone would have 30 percent of its price (and later, that of its “in-app purchases”) go to Apple. Famously propriet
by georgieporgie 15y ago
Alarmist fluff.
And every app sold for the iPhone would have 30 percent of its price (and later, that of its “in-app purchases”) go to Apple. Famously proprietary Microsoft never dared to extract a tax on every piece of software written by others for Windows—perhaps because, in the absence of consistent Internet access in the 1990s through which to manage purchases and licenses, there’d be no realistic way to make it happen.
Microsoft never provided a complete distribution channel for software, either.
Complying with Apple requirements and limitations is annoying. However, the consumer gets reasonably vetted software, and the developer gets a single method of distribution.
What's the complaint, again?
- dmethvin 15y agoiPhone owners are prohibited from going to any other store. It's a monopoly. Sure, Mussolini was a dictator, but he made the trains run on time.
- georgieporgie 15y agoNobody is forcing you to use an iPhone. You have plenty of other options.
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- shaggyfrog 15y agoSigh. Yes, of course, Apple is just like a violent dictator who supported genocide.
- jsight 15y agoWhoosh The point isn't that Apple is just like a violent dictator. The point is that these statements are (mostly) irrelevent to each other. The trains can run on time without a dictator. The user can have a fine walled-garden experience but still retain the option to (in a reasonably supported way) tear down the walls.
- scott_s 15y agoI'm not sure that your last sentence is possible. That is, if a device explicitly has an option to go outside of the garden, then I think most consumers will expect to still have full support.
- shaggyfrog 15y agoThere's just no need to invoke the name of a violent dictator to make a point like that. Unfortunately, it seems that other people seem to think it's appropriate. I expect more from this place.
- vacri 15y agoApple speaks Italian and wears a little hat, too!
- michaeldhopkins 15y agoNo, he did not. http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp