Re:Antitrust inquiry into Apple over Section 3.3.1
by InclinedPlane on Monday May 03, 2010 @08:23PM
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Yes, exactly. It's really not much different than an employer trying to maintain the highest quality employees by using race as a hiring decision.
Apple already has an extensive quality control process for iPhone apps. If they can't come up with objective criteria that they can test apps against in the approval process then they shouldn't just use prejudicial BS to try to filter out so-called low quality apps. It's anti-competitive and anti-innovative. It's nothing more than a big company throwing around its weight trying to be a bully.
Well, that's just the point. Apple doesn't care about the quality of the application. They already have a screen for that by virtue of their control of the app store. They are refusing apps based on the technology that was used to create them. It could be the most beautiful, performant, amazing application ever written and their developer agreement rules it out.