Wednesday, 12 June 2013

If you were in any doubt that Apple products are market infrastructures...

...then consider the fact that Apple has paid out over $10Bn to App Store developers since 2008! (link) With this in mind do you think iOS developers are happy with the deal in that they are dealing with: a proprietary platform, closed garden ecosystem, App vetting, fee sharing with Apple, limited tool sets, platform rules for design elements, platform rules about content etc.