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I agree completely. Having a walled garden forces Apple to focus on the quality of their software if they wish to have a competitive product. (And their softw
by xwkd 4y ago
I agree completely. Having a walled garden forces Apple to focus on the quality of their software if they wish to have a competitive product. (And their software, on the whole, is good because they have control over their vertical integrations.) If you forcibly take away their incentive to compete, the appeal of the iPhone disappears. Every phone's environment becomes a Bazaar; no more Cathedrals.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
- jamil7 4y agoI feel it should be the opposite. If Apple is heading in the direction of more service revenue and is forced to compete on a level playing field with competitors like Spotify, for example, wouldn't this encourage them to improve Apple Music?
- nullwarp 4y agoYeah no kidding, I don't understand the parent comment at all. How does not allowing anyone to compete make it so you want to make your software better?
- xwkd 4y agoI don't mean this to sound rude, but I don't know the answer: Are you a software developer? Being forced to depend on service revenue rather than the appeal of an integrated platform means that the quality of the integrated platform will decline. Sure, Apple Music as an individual piece of software in support of the service offering may improve, but what about the underlying Frameworks that support it? The money, in developer resources, has to be spent somewhere.