I wrote about this in a recent blog post: "App Stores are the new record labels" As much of software is about disintermediation, of making the world run more s

I wrote about this in a recent blog post: "App Stores are the new record labels" As much of software is about disintermediation, of making the world run more smoothly through removal of middlemen, it is interesting that we software developers are now driving ourselves to a world full of middlemen. A world where we suddenly have to ask for a permission to do something new. In a world where everything must go through the rules and regulations of an app store without any oversight we, the developers, will suddenly be in the same abused stage as artists are with their labels. We take all the risk and all the effort on building software for our users. The middleman then can invalidate all our hard work by arbitrarily making it impossible for their ecosystem to run the app. And even if they do accept the software, they'll take a hefty cut of the proceeds. How can this make sense to an independent developer? http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/meego-diaspora/ http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/meego-diaspora/