Echoing some of my own sentiments about the App Store compared to the web as distribution channels, Joe Hewitt — developer of Firebug (Firefox before that), the Facebook iPhone app and countless developer essentials — writes: I’d like to add my voice to the stream of complaints about the iPhone App Store, but before I [...]
Three years ago, on August 29, 2006, Apple announced that Google CEO Eric Schmidt had been elected to their board of advisors. Today, he resigned that seat. TechMeme has all the coverage you need, including a useful post from Erick Shonfeld that poses the question “What happens when the enemy of your enemy is no [...]
Photo by David Geller, shared under Creative Commons Ok, Steve Jobs doesn’t hate the App Store. It’s a friggin’ blockbuster success as far as the pundits can see. It’s everything and more than anyone ever thought it could be. It’s the salvation of weak business models. It preserves the patriarchic walled garden hierarchy of app-lockin [...]