Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy

Re:Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy by glhaynes on Monday April 12, 2010 @03:29PM (#1260093)

This is exactly the thinking that Apple doesn't want going into App Store apps: "I'll just put up this good-enough piece of crap because that's all I have time/money to do." They've got a ton of businesses wanting to be on iPhone so they're willing to lose those businesses that will only put out crap. I agree with you that putting out a piece of crap might make the most sense for your business. But it's not what Apple wants for its platform.

A key thing to understand here: the existence of a platform controlled in this way increases diversity, since there are several other prospering platforms that do things differently.

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Re:Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy by confuzatron on Monday April 12, 2010 @05:24PM (#1260430)

Apple don't want crap apps in the appstore? Have you /seen/ the appstore?

I'm sorry, but the undiluted denial-of-reality from the more extreme Apple apologists is making me dizzy.

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Re:Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy by MWinther on Monday April 12, 2010 @05:28PM (#1260437)

I'd say that now that Apple has plenty of volume in the app store, they're focusing more on quality. I imagine they want to implement higher standards at a rate that still makes the number of apps grow. Like when they removed a bunch of basically web-browsers with a hard-coded link somewhere for 0.99. It's a process, ya know?

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