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Re:Apple's Mistake by joe_the_user on Friday November 20, 2009 @12:51AM (#951977)
I think you miss the point.

Developer relations are central to Apple as a whole. Apples needs iPhone developers, desktop developers, web developers and developers for whatever they do after the iPhone. If Apple creates hostile feelings in the developer community with its App Store behavior, Apple is going to have ongoing problems regardless of whether it needs third party developers at the moment.

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Re:Apple's Mistake by bumblebird on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:27AM (#952202)
Not really :/ They need people developing webapps. To be honest, I think the appstore is just a stopgap until webapps become mature enough to take over (And wifi is prevalent enough). I wouldn't put too much effort into the appstore, and I don't really blame Apple for being half hearted about it. It's certainly not the future.
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