Comments on: Joe Hewitt on the App Store http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/08/25/joe-hewitt-on-the-app-store/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew Parker http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/08/25/joe-hewitt-on-the-app-store/comment-page-1/#comment-109731 Andrew Parker Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:05:07 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1639#comment-109731 Fundamentally though it's a completely different model to the web. There isn't an organisation charging 30% of all revenue generated by every website you create. Much as I agree with the sentiment - the rejection of the Google Voice App (or should I say "long term review" from the statement to the FCC?) has brought home some of the uncomfortable consequences of having a 'walled garden' app store. But ultimately Apple is, in effect, 'selling' stuff to us (a grocer is actually a better analogy than the web) and they choose what to stock. If we don't like their stocking policy we go elsewhere.... we didn't purchase an open hardware platform - we purchased an iPhone/iPod. ...but then they go and make such shiny groceries, with those little blinking lights... aaaahhhh. Fundamentally though it’s a completely different model to the web. There isn’t an organisation charging 30% of all revenue generated by every website you create.

Much as I agree with the sentiment – the rejection of the Google Voice App (or should I say “long term review” from the statement to the FCC?) has brought home some of the uncomfortable consequences of having a ‘walled garden’ app store. But ultimately Apple is, in effect, ‘selling’ stuff to us (a grocer is actually a better analogy than the web) and they choose what to stock. If we don’t like their stocking policy we go elsewhere…. we didn’t purchase an open hardware platform – we purchased an iPhone/iPod.

…but then they go and make such shiny groceries, with those little blinking lights… aaaahhhh.

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