As you may have discovered while reading this blog, I have owned and own a lot of Apple hardware. Why? Because I appreciate design, the attention to detail, and the way Apple tries to make their products and the users of those products work together a seamlessly as possible. But even so, Apple has made mistakes on each of these.
Does that make me a “fan”, blinded to all alternatives? Of course not. After all, Apple is just a company; their strategy centers around “business”, not integrity or being perfect.
Apple is far from perfect, and that is very clear in the way the App Store works. I once contemplated building apps for the iPhone, but have to pay 30% of my income to Apple was a no-go for me (I already pay taxes, thank you).
Not allowing other app stores to exist in order to better protect the users is another example of “business over integrity”. Russell Ivanovic said it well:
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