bill_t_cat

StrangeDays said:

For this to be true, there has to be no viable market alternatives. Yet iOS is not the majority market share, as Android provides a wide open plain of alternatives -- multiple app stores, as well as side-loading. There is inarguably room there for this supposed stifled innovation to thrive. 

Apple cannot have a monopoly on their own store, no more than McDonald's has a monopoly on their own store & menu by not allowing Whoppers, or sushi vendors, etc...

well said ... someone who actually understands what a monopoly means.

it's really no different than perdue selling chicken to price chopper, who then marks it up to sell to the end user. if you want to make more money on your app, charge more money. if you price yourself out of the market, lower your price. perdue depends on various grocery stores to sell their products the same as app developers rely on multiple app stores to sell their products.

additionally, facebook's very existence stifles innovation, competition, intelligence and rational discourse and provides absolutely no discernible benefit.

apple is by no means perfect nor are they a benevolent benefactor ... rather, they are a capitalist entity whose purpose is to provide a safe and usable product to their end users while satisfying their stockholders. given the tens of thousands of apps on the app store, the entry fee is obviously not onerous. and, if your app is really great and really useful, people will buy it regardless of the price.