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If I pay you money, I'm your customer. It really is that simple.
So I'm a customer of the DPT when I get a parking ticket?
Sigh. Let's try to confine the discussion to voluntary business relationships, shall we?
Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
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Re: Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
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You act like there's a choice -- customers get apps through the app store, so that's where developers have to be if they want to eat.
There is a choice - and it is the right choice. Just make your software browser-based.
The whole point of Dash was to make documentation offline.
Re: Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
#473Not mean to be offensive but I will think this way:
App Store is a commercial service. When you post something there, you're solidating service from Apple.
So if they reject to serve you, it's like a store reject to sell something to you (not because you cannot pay for it).
My first response is why don't distribute it on your own, like an HTTP link to 'apk'... then I realised general user cannot install stuff without App Store.
Why open source project bother to support people not using open source system? You cannot save to whole world (like someone lock himself intentionally during a fire, and reject to open the door. It might not be a good example but I hope you get my thought)
Re: Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
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So I'm a customer of the DPT when I get a parking ticket?
Sigh. Let's try to confine the discussion to voluntary business relationships, shall we?
Sigh, let's remind ourselves that businesses misrepresenting themselses do not deserve special air cover. I'm not sure what you're hoping to gain by pretending this is a customer relationship and you can somehow coerce Apple by pretending you could get money back from them.
Any developer who thinks they are a "customer" in any meaningful sense of the word needs to re-read their click-thru contract with Apple. The concept of "customer" is distorted beyond belief here.
Re: Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
#475I am annoyed by something else: today Apple stepped on the wrong toe, the community will cry foul and someone from Apple who reads HN will rush to salvage the situation. We have seen this pattern before (usually but not exclusively with Apple). But what about the thousands of small and nameless developers that were crushed by some script bug or killed by operator misclick? Who will ever help them?
"If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."
Re: Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
#476Apple is choosing to only support a few cryptocurrencies and hasn't given any criteria for their choices. This is all people want, Apple--reasoning! The sting from incidences like these, at least for me, comes mostly from the information scarcity that proceeds them. Unfortunately, it seems, the writing truly was on the wall once Dash had to be removed from Jaxx Wallet. I'm not even a Dash user, but choice in such a n…
Wrong "Dash". This is about the documentation-browser, not the cryptocurrency.
Ah you are correct. I've had cryptocurrency on the brain the last few weeks and was hasty.
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That might look the way in theory, but it is not so in practice. There will never be another Google, or another Facebook, or another Amazon - efficiency based on scale and network effect mean they are entrenched as monopolies for ever, too big to fail.
Ten years ago you could be telling the same story about Yahoo and Microsoft and look at them now.
Yahoo was in a completely nascent unsettled market, and Microsoft didn't go anywhere. Microsofts net revenue and net income are large than Alphabets/Googles.
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They are mainly regulated because they naturally form into monopolies, just like the large internet services.
Large internet services do not form natural monopoplies. Amazon has New egg, ebay, walmart, plus a million new ones trying to overthrow them. The local cable company only has the local Phone company.
For Amazon this might just about be true, however, there are strong platform effects. Amazon is growing faster than the market. There is a fairly obvious argument to make for why its a natural monopoly: If its the first place buyers go to look for stuff, it's the first place sellers go for stuff. If it's the place where all the sellers are, it's the place buyers go to look first.
Really, given that this is a market that is growing double digits by year, the amount by which amazon dominates it is shocking.
And that is in a market that is still growing rapidly. For Facebook/Whatsapp this is even more obviously not true. Facebook even failed to leverage its social network monopoly to establish its messenger against insurgents, simply because they were a bit late.
Re: Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
#479I bought my version of Dash on the App store.... shame on me ! and this is the exact reaon I avoid the app store and buy things directly from the developers when I can.
So Apple, how do I get my $$$ back so I can rebuy it from a reputable source ???
Re: Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
#480Apple has not only screwed the developer, but also EVERYONE that paid for this through the app store... I will no longer be afforded upgrades that the developer makes...