On: Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad

[aerique]

But if you don't want to jailbreak your phone there aren't many other stores to choose from for the iPhone, are there?

[ryanhuff → aerique]

Why does that really matter? If I sold chocolate covered bagels, and I was the only chocolate covered bagel store in town, do I have to serve you?

Or, if you wanted to open your own chocolate covered bagel store in the only mall within 30 miles, does the mall operator have to lease you space?

As a developer, I find the situation painful, but I think Apple views the appstore as their mall, and they want to control the image of their mall by holding the store keepers to a certain standard in order to promote a certain customer experience.

[aerique → ryanhuff]

Depending on the country your store is in: yes, you would have to serve me unless you have a very good reason not to (like I'm a returning thief or troublemaker).

[hartror → ryanhuff]

Sure they can do what they like on the iPhone (within the grounds of the law) but we don't have to like it.

And how does this change have anything to do with customer experience when they already vet customer experience when the app is submitted?

[coliveira → hartror]

> but we don't have to like it.

developers for the iPhone are a dime a dozen. But there is only one Appstore for the iPhone.

[IgorPartola → hartror]

It's their sandbox, they can do what they want. Just like you can choose whether to play in it or not.