Apple’s App Store has been a smashing success. Last week, Apple announced that more than three billion apps had been downloaded from the App Store since its inception 18 months ago. It’s almost hard to imagine the time when there were no third-party apps. But have Apples’ actions, coupled with web technologies, threatened the future of the App Store?
Apple’s missteps with the App Store have been well-publicized, from the pulling of all apps that supported Google Voice, to the seemingly random approval and rejection of some apps. Naturally, certain app developers became disgruntled over events like these. Can you blame them? Would you want to invest significant time and money to develop an app, and not know if you’d ever be able to sell it? Developers now have other options.
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Major League Baseball just doesn’t get it. Archaic blackout rules, postseason game times that alienate potential future fans, and an economic system that allows some teams to serve as farm teams for a few big market teams, leave many outsiders scratching their heads. Add baseball’s latest internet offering, Postseason.TV, to the list of baseball’s facepalm moments.
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In the beginning of August, Microsoft released a detailed