Re: A cautionary tale: various major Xto7 woes ...

Simon,

The App Store model provides two things that are both pretty valuable.

For the consumer, the "Vetted by Apple" approach makes sure that malicious code and system screwing mistakes are (hopefully) filtered out.

For the authors, they don't have to operate their own back-end "e-commerce" engines - which is a huge time and effort savings.

I actually think it's a pretty efficient model and both sides benefit.

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