For Apple, Yesterday??s Banned Apps Are Tomorrow??s Great New Feature
SOURCE: WIRED • 2011-06-10
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Apple Inc. • Itunes • Steve Jobs • Iphone • App Store • Itunes Store • Apple Store • Technology_internet • Business_finance
Apple deserves lots of credit for creating an entirely new market for mobile software in the iTunes app store, over which it justifiably reigns. But the army of developers who have created over half a million Apple iOS apps to date perform another valuable function, in addition to making Apple??s hardware more attractive to users and contributing 30 percent of their revenue to the company??s bottom line: Sometimes, they act like a big, unpaid R&D lab for incubating features that Apple can eve... read more »