Opinion piece by "Kontra" laying out the options facing cross-platform mobile app developers vs. Apple. Lucid, and containing this pretty accurate characterisation of the state of the market: "[...] Users do not follow esoteric open/closed platform politics, they vote with their money for convenience, reliability and value. [...] Android may be open but is currently a geek ghetto with nothing to match iTunes store. And, let’s not kid ourselves, Google is there not to ‘help’ but to commoditize hardware manufacturers by funneling them to compete against each other on Google’s platform largely on price. [...]" http://counternotions.com/2010/04/13/suicidal/
[This somewhat associated to earlier BGF-topic »Adobe: “Go Screw Yourself Apple”« http://blogoscoped.com/forum/169774.html] Geek-ghetto-dwellers, show your colors!
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