Kay, I get it you're a big Apple fan. Good for you. I'm curious, do you make a living writing and selling Mac software, or just investing in Apple stock and watching it rise? Perhaps it might help looking at things from a developer's point of view. Do you think it fair Apple exchanges a 70% royalty check for taking your customers-- forcing you to use THEIR license and copy protection scheme? What if someone hacks the DRM (and you know they will)-- how fast do you think Apple will act then?
What if you release something which is not right, and you want to instantly update it, but you can't because Apple requires update submissions to go through a grueling submission process which takes days, instead of seconds like we are used to? Furthermore, what if Apple could, on a whim, kill your whole AppStore business down the road because they didn't like your new interface? Then, you have to "ghetto-market" your new product without even knowing who your previous customers were. I suspect my own product, ButtonGadget would be banned from the store because it has a non standard interface. And you would surely reply with a grin, "nothing keeps you from marketing it yourself." Tell that to the thousands of family run storefronts obliterated when a WalMart moves into a small town. There is no way a small developer can compete, except in the ghetto. I guarantee one thing. There will be huge downward price pressure on apps. Apple has even said how they will take longer to evaluate a submission the more expensive it is. I remember when people said apps for iPad would be significantly more expensive than for iPhone. They were wrong, too. Most still wince at paying over 4 bucks an app. While many of you really believe this is better for the customer, I believe it is worse. There are a number of beta and not yet finished apps which will be banned as well. And lots of small developers, including yours truly, will just abandon the Mac altogether, because the threshold for putting up with Apple is just too high. And once developers figure out how few Macs are actually out there (not like the number of iPhones), and how little money they make at 70% of a buck ninety-nine, they will be forced to look at other platforms to develop for. I'm tired of Steve making decisions in the best interest of me. I still wish I could run flash video on my iPad, and I seriously wouldn't mind the occasional crash. Heck, the browser I use crashes every 15 minutes anyway. On Saturday, October 23, 2010, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah, been extremely busy of late and have a brief moment to visit the List to > discover nothing has changed, the old OS wars continues lightly disguised as > Steve is Satan discussion. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution