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Originally Posted by Aquatic 
And how is my argument 3 invalid? Of course Apple doesn't want competition with their money-making App store. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that business model. In fact it's brilliant. It's just not a product model that I am interested in at the moment. If iPhone eventually gains advantages in areas I care about over Android maybe I'll get one. But now it does not, and that in addition to the Apple philosophy for iOS keeps me away from iPhone. But again, do you see what I mean? Apple does not like that websites can get "app" like functionality with Flash and intentionally cut them out for this reason. At least, that I am guessing was a big reason in their doing so. I don't have inside info or anything, I'm just making an educated guess. Also, I think it is important to realize phone hardware has advanced a lot since Apple initially wrote Flash off, and Flash itself has advanced. Perhaps when Flash first came out on Android it really was crap. But I have only been using it for the past six months, and for me it works nicely. In fact it just got updated again today, to apparently allow users to grant Flash access to the phone camera to use as a webcam etc.
And how is my argument 3 invalid? Of course Apple doesn't want competition with their money-making App store. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that business model. In fact it's brilliant. It's just not a product model that I am interested in at the moment. If iPhone eventually gains advantages in areas I care about over Android maybe I'll get one. But now it does not, and that in addition to the Apple philosophy for iOS keeps me away from iPhone. But again, do you see what I mean? Apple does not like that websites can get "app" like functionality with Flash and intentionally cut them out for this reason. At least, that I am guessing was a big reason in their doing so. I don't have inside info or anything, I'm just making an educated guess. Also, I think it is important to realize phone hardware has advanced a lot since Apple initially wrote Flash off, and Flash itself has advanced. Perhaps when Flash first came out on Android it really was crap. But I have only been using it for the past six months, and for me it works nicely. In fact it just got updated again today, to apparently allow users to grant Flash access to the phone camera to use as a webcam etc.
There are a lot of free apps in the App Store. Apple has to bear the burden of supporting those apps, but they don't make a dime for Apple. As it stands, the App Store is running at break-even for Apple. And the new iCloud services with free storage for all iOS customers is, in the long run, going to cost them. I don't think you realize that Apple is a consumer electronics company--I would have said "hardware company" except that, after reading Walter Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs, I learned that Apple doesn't separate hardware from software from services. It's all one big product. The App Store's "long tail" is a feature for selling iPhones and iPads. It's isn't a major source of profit for Apple. The third-party ISVs make the profits; Apple only gains ancillary benefits from selling these third-party apps.
If you want further evidence of Apple's focus, consider what Steve Jobs told the boys who started DropBox: you're a feature, not a product. iCloud file syncing, like the App Store, is a feature of the product, but not the product itself.
"And just like that, everyone here realizes you're just another sweaty little Google licker with an axe to grind and no idea what he's talking about." --addabox
