Daniel Jalkut
When Apple launched the Mac App Store in 2010, I was excited: finally, the ease of iOS purchases on OS X. Win for devs. Win for customers…
… I immediately spotted shortcomings, but thought, naively, "this can only get better." Improvements have come, but they’re superficial.
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(My generous analysis completely glossed over the abject digressions that barred previously acceptable apps from remaining in the store.)
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@danielpunkass I keep thinking back to How Apple Rolls and how they uncharacteristically didn’t in this case.http://www.macworld.com/article/1151235/apple_rolls.html … -
@mjtsai@danielpunkass Apple isn’t a single entity. The best thing to do is blog about it. It supports those internally who want the same.
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@danielpunkass Apple's business incentives are weak around this. They don't have to care. They need a strong internal voice arguing for us. - View other replies
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@danielpunkass Weak incentives in the medium term, but the long term picture might be bleak for them. -
@danielpunkass Eventually clever people will move on to other platforms or even other fields. - View other replies
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@jaredsinclair Yup. Sigh. -
@danielpunkass It just strikes me as unnecessarily wasteful, which makes me sad.
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@danielpunkass Apple spreads itself too thin in so many ways, you can't count on anything that isn't a blockbuster for them
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