iFlowReader out of business
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- Boz0
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Ha ha.. making comparison of a technology company to a restaurant.
In your analogy if you can call it that, nobody is telling Apple to allow others to sell computers and devices through their retail stores.. Apple is a hardware company first that is using software/content lock in to sell more of it.
Apple is more like mafia. They own buildings and they rent them out for people to run businesses and live there, and everybody can come in, but if you start doing something after a while where mafia wants a cut from or they loved your idea so they want to compete with you, you need to buy "protection". If you don't, you are a goner. If you do, well everyone is happy cause now the big boss Steve gets 30% share of your business.
Hey listen. I personally don't give a crap about all this.. I tell everyone to develop for Android first and iOS second because Android is clearly the future, startups can control their business however they want and then iOS is their second choice because it's unavoidable. But their primary business is always wiser to be based on Android because they will have full control over it and no company can tell them what they can or can't do.
I also said, it's these guys fault too.. I just hope more and more devs realize this. But they'll probably realize once they actually face Apple censorship and they can't do anything about it.. at which point it's too late.
So it's wise to go with open and then expand into proprietary instead of going proprietary platform and then going wide because as seen here, Apple has full control over your business if you start with them.
All I'm saying is, that Apple is the most closed up, proprietary, anti-competitive, anti-consumer, greedy company in tech world today.
They make beautiful products, but that doesn't excuse their business model and company politics.