tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7127741847312258461.post453362758229189729..comments2023-09-10T07:11:42.506-07:00Comments on Open Source to Go!: Not Getting It at TechcrunchLeftyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08971976622291862537noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7127741847312258461.post-34894533080469400272008-09-29T08:49:00.000-07:002008-09-29T08:49:00.000-07:00I guess that's one way of looking at it, although ...I guess that's one way of looking at it, although in fairness, I don't think sharecroppers got a 70% cut.<BR/><BR/>But, yeah.<BR/><BR/>Apple definitely gets you coming and going here, and it's a sort of a weird tribute to their corporate resilience that they've managed to provide an ecosystem along the lines of what you can still see the ruins of in Berlin over by Checkpoint Charlie, while still keeping much of the "We're the good guys!" aura... They figured this out with the iPod, but the iPhone is much more heavily armored.<BR/><BR/>It's as though your MP3 player not only insisted that you got the tunes from the right store (which they did for a good long time, effectively, by being the sole source--something Amazon, in particular, is working hard to put a dent into, I think--but also demanded that you only listen to music that Steve happened to personally enjoy...Leftyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08971976622291862537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7127741847312258461.post-50686237595846587892008-09-29T08:39:00.000-07:002008-09-29T08:39:00.000-07:00Apple not only owns the grocery store here, they o...<I>Apple not only owns the grocery store here, they own your pots, pans, sink, refrigerator and kitchen stove, and you can only use the recipes they've pre-approved. If you can't sell your application on the Apps Store, you simply can't sell your application.</I><BR/><BR/>In other words, non-Apple iPhone developers are effectively sharecroppers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com