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I agree that it's not a perfect analogy. App stores (I'm talking in general, not referring to Apple's store) are still centralized and act as gatekeepers, but t
by nawitus 13y ago
I agree that it's not a perfect analogy. App stores (I'm talking in general, not referring to Apple's store) are still centralized and act as gatekeepers, but the "gatekeeping level" is in another level to what it used to be. Before app stores it was practically impossible to for a lone developer to create an application and release it.
- nhaehnle 13y agoYou do realize that software development existed before app stores, right? Lone developers created and released applications all the time. App stores are about convenience, and so they are not like your other examples, which are about decentralization. They just don't fit.
- nawitus 13y ago>Lone developers created and released applications all the time. The context was applications for mobile phones.