Posts by bikertwin

Quote: Originally Posted by dru I've no issue with Apple's "walled garden" approach on iOS since they also support the wild-west of the open, standards-based web. So how do you create a web app that uploads photos to your...

Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody I agree for the most part if we are talking about "porn." The trouble is Apple has banned and removed a lot of apps that couldn't remotely be described as "porn" at all. ...

Well I guess we're just going in circles, because my last 3 posts addressed all of your it's-not-Apple's-fault lines of reasoning.

Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler I would agree that there are valid complaints about Apple's app store distribution model. "Thousands and thousands of dollars" though? That seems like overstating the case a bit. While it...

Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler The device in itself isn't a free market but the consumer still has a choice of which device to buy in a free market. Key concept to understand: A single product within a market is not the same...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism It's a free market because the seller has a choice of what to sell and buyer has a choice of where to shop. For instance, Wal-Mart doesn't have to carry Hustler magazine simply because Larry Flynt...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism You just took that to a whole new irrational level by failing to comprehend what a free market is. If a company doesn't wish to license or sell their product to you for resale then that is that. If...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Go start your own app store then. Make your own phone and infrastructure. Who give YOU the right to specify what Apple should or shouldn't do? Apple has millions of happy customers and a very...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta The vast majority, apparently. BTW, the rules are not as arbitrary as you are claiming. The first rule is that the app must work. IIRC, Apple stated that about 20-30% of submissions failed...

Ok, so the main point of the original article is that 90% of iFart developers are iOS only? Well, no kidding. They couldn't program themselves out of a paper bag, and supporting Objective C and Java/Android is over their head....