On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Benjamin Krueger wrote: > You are suggesting that if my app is available on Android, but not iOS as I'm > blocked from iOS because of Apple's 30% tithing demand, consumers will simply > buy an Android tablet in addition to an iPad just so they can get my app? > This suggestion is ridiculous.
Android != iOS. You seem to have confused those two concepts somewhere. And you don't have any God-given right to access those customers anyway. And if you want to have access to the widest possible array of customers, then you won't do apps at all -- just put it all on the web in HTML5 and be done with it. Apple can't stop you from doing that. > Not only is that irrelevant, it's also untrue. App stores aren't new and they > weren't invented (or even made "fully functional") by Apple. Apple is not in the business of inventing things like App stores. They certainly existed long before Apple came along. Portable music players certainly existed long before Apple came along. Smartphones existed before Apple came along. Computers capable of displaying graphics existed before Apple. Computers for home/personal use existed before Apple. What Apple tends to do is to take a particular idea and figure out the most perfect possible execution of that idea, and how they can make money at packaging a whole system around that particular idea. Or perhaps you missed that part of the history of the company? > You repeat yourself. As I noted above, this suggestion is ridiculous. Be > careful though; comments like "half-functional attempt at cloning Apple's app > store", among others you've made, might lead the reader to believe that you > harbor some sort of emotional bias for Apple and against their competitors, > which may undermine your argument. Radical fundamentalism has not solved any major problems in the history of the world, at least not so far as I know. Your attempts to apply radical fundamentalist ideals to this issue certainly have not helped your case. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
