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I'll second this. Apple's doing causes a great deal of harm to small businesses that basically only live on its platform. That is a monopoly to these small

by chj 14y ago

I'll second this. Apple's doing causes a great deal of harm to small businesses that basically only live on its platform. That is a monopoly to these small businesses. I don't see why MS is punished like hell in the 90s for bundling IE only, but apple lives comfortably now. The only solution is iOS platform must allow third party appstore, must allow third party browsers(not wrappers). Otherwise, shit will happen again tomorrow.

X-Istence 14y ago
MS got punished for bundling IE because they provided it for free and Netscape at the time cost money. They also bundled IE with an OS that was installed by 90% of the computer using population thereby effectively shutting out competitors. Apple doesn't have 90% of the market. If the users are unhappy or developers are unhappy there are plenty of alternatives. Sure you can't develop for iOS anymore, but if Windows didn't have 90% market share Netscape might have been able to stay in business simply by selling to customers running Solaris and Mac OS and then MS wouldn't have been raked over the coals because of bundling their browser.
- chj 14y ago
  think about this, apple not only provide browser for free (perfectly ok for me tho), but also shut off any possible competition, because only webkit can have JIT. I totally get it that this is not antitrust issue by law since their market share is not over 50% yet, however for indie devs live on this platform, it means 100%.
  - X-Istence 14y ago
    Then those Indie Devs need to re-evaluate their position. There are other platforms out there.
    - chj 14y ago
      Totally agree, the simplest solution is to stop making new apps for iOS. However that doesn't make Apple's way of doing RIGHT.
      - X-Istence 14y ago
        Why does it not make it right? What exactly is wrong with what Apple is doing? Apple can do as it wishes, its the consumers that are voting with their feet/wallets.

by chj 14y ago

X-Istence 14y ago

MS got punished for bundling IE because they provided it for free and Netscape at the time cost money. They also bundled IE with an OS that was installed by 90% of the computer using population thereby effectively shutting out competitors. Apple doesn't have 90% of the market. If the users are unhappy or developers are unhappy there are plenty of alternatives. Sure you can't develop for iOS anymore, but if Windows didn't have 90% market share Netscape might have been able to stay in business simply by selling to customers running Solaris and Mac OS and then MS wouldn't have been raked over the coals because of bundling their browser.

chj 14y ago
think about this, apple not only provide browser for free (perfectly ok for me tho), but also shut off any possible competition, because only webkit can have JIT. I totally get it that this is not antitrust issue by law since their market share is not over 50% yet, however for indie devs live on this platform, it means 100%.
- X-Istence 14y ago
  Then those Indie Devs need to re-evaluate their position. There are other platforms out there.
  - chj 14y ago
    Totally agree, the simplest solution is to stop making new apps for iOS. However that doesn't make Apple's way of doing RIGHT.
    - X-Istence 14y ago
      Why does it not make it right? What exactly is wrong with what Apple is doing? Apple can do as it wishes, its the consumers that are voting with their feet/wallets.