Users should have the choice to buy from Apple's App Store or another App Store. Other App Stores could be added to the platform (with support from Apple) without sacrificing the security of the platform (the security model of iOS could stay intact). Of course Apple's app review would be replaced by a third party app review (other rules within the law). There also would be many identical apps available from several App Stores (maybe with different pricing).
Users have a choice. They can buy android if they don’t like it. The iPhone is a platform and the App Store is part of that platform. It is not an open computer like a PC. It is a specialist platform and users know that when they choose it. Apple’s platform, Apple’s rules.
As a small time developer I am in favor of the App Store. It removes lots of burdens of selling software and provides an easy platform to do so.
How about you and Apple lets the rest of us decide what our choices are? You are right that iOS is not an open computer but it should be. That's why this news story won't go away. I am also a small time developer. I have been since the days of the Apple II which brought the power of the computer to regular people. That power should not go away simply because Apple had its lawyers draft a license agreement.
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You are right that iOS is not an open computer but it should be. That's why this news story won't go away.
I am also a small time developer. I have been since the days of the Apple II which brought the power of the computer to regular people. That power should not go away simply because Apple had its lawyers draft a license agreement.