See
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20004585-266.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
Between the AT&T lock-in for customers and the franchise development
model (with extremely limited, "hostage status" rights for developers),
I think the iPhone *should* go down in flames, despite any user
interface wonders it delivers. Whether it will do so, is another
question entirely, but I think it currently stands for evil like few
other things in computing today. Even the Windows mono-culture in
business does not demand that all developers sign away all their rights
for the privilege of developing on Windows!
I'm not saying the iPhone and iPad don't have sexy industrial design and
UI -- it's just a sugar coating on a poison pill until Apple's
development model is fixed. There need to be real alternatives to the
Apple store for application distribution, not a monopoly. At the very
least there need to be clear, narrow cases for Apple denying/removing an
application. A healthy marketplace of online app stores would be an
easier and better solution, though -- Apple could then deny anyone for
any cause and another app store would simply sell your app instead.
Apple could similarly try to take a bigger cut of the profit -- and
another app store would undercut them.
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Jess Holle
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