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I don't disagree with any of your points in a fundamental sense: sure, Apple is well within their rights to set the policies they have set, and I understand that Apple believes that all this gives them a distinct market advantage (I won't try to pass judgment on whether or not that's correct; I don't think anyone here knows for a fact whether they'd be better off another way). Development for a mobile device is diffe…
> I know people like you seem to think that it's an easy binary decision As with any business decision, you have to weight as many factors as possible. Unless you have some marketing muscle for promoting your app, chances are it will drown in an ocean of similar applications. Worse: in an ocean of applications with similar names and descriptions. Going the Apple way has never been an easy thing. At least in the pre X…
Re: Apple Slaps Developers In The Face
#151Yep, very true. With the huge number of free apps with similar features to many of the paid apps, it sounds pretty hard to make it big in this space. And despite all the buzz and publicity the iPhone gets, it's still not the dominant mobile platform by market share.