Imagine if Microsoft had come out with an App Store for Windows 7 and decreed that the only way to run apps on Windows 7 was to get them from the Microsoft App Atore. If you wanted to create apps for Windows 7, you'd have to use Visual Studio and a Microsoft compiler, you'd have to pay an annual fee to be a an accepted Microsoft App Store developer, and if you wanted to charge for your application, you'd have to pay Microsoft a 30% commission on the sale price.
People would lose their damn minds.
If you're the dominant OS in the smartphone market or in the desktop market, where's the difference?
Apple has to unlock the iPhone and let people get their apps from wherever they want.
If people want the security of knowing an app is Apple approved to work and play nice with others on their systems, they can go through the App Store.
It's not their rules, but the fact that they remove choice from the market for both consumers and developers by FORCING themselves into the consumer/developer relationship as a restrictive middleman.
People would lose their damn minds.
If you're the dominant OS in the smartphone market or in the desktop market, where's the difference?
Apple has to unlock the iPhone and let people get their apps from wherever they want.
If people want the security of knowing an app is Apple approved to work and play nice with others on their systems, they can go through the App Store.
It's not their rules, but the fact that they remove choice from the market for both consumers and developers by FORCING themselves into the consumer/developer relationship as a restrictive middleman.