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> if the App Store had never existed? ...even though it lays golden eggs Why is the general rebuttal always binary? Be grateful that it exists at all! It lays
by radley 1y ago
> if the App Store had never existed? ...even though it lays golden eggs
Why is the general rebuttal always binary? Be grateful that it exists at all! It lays golden eggs!
No, they're just eggs. A few of us are lucky to sell a lot of eggs. That doesn't make them golden. The true gold eggs are grown despite the store (Netflix, YouTube, OpenAI).
Imagine an App Store that only lets you make black and white apps, but the store itself can produce full-color apps. Further, if your black and white app is actually successful, they'll copy it and release their version in color.
That's what's hindering us today.
- frollogaston 1y agoApple invested so much in their platform because of the expectation that they'd get to run it the way they want, including taking a cut
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Apple invested so much in their platform because of the expectation that they'd get to run it the way they want, including taking a cut Source? Jobs’ original vision included no App Store. Web apps would suffice. They sucked, and continue to suck, so he built an App Store to flesh out the iPhone’s feature set.
- frollogaston 1y agoJobs' original vision was not what they chose. Sure I would've liked webapps as a user.