[FoRK] $100M for iPhone Developers

[Luis Villa]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>
>  On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
>
>  >>>> It is definitely fairly commonplace; running the tollbooth always
>  >>> looks like a profitable temptation. I don't think it's a
>  >>> coincidence,
>  >>> though, that the one of the vendors brave (foolhardy?) enough to
>  >>> take
>  >>> a pass on this model is the most dominant, durable, and pervasive
>  >>> platform monopoly that the consumer electronics industry has ever
>  >>> seen.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> ?
>  >
>  > Microsoft.
>
>  I'm not sure they really fit in that CE category... do they?
>
>  (It's definitely arguable.)

It's a bit of a stretch :) But I don't think it's unreasonable for the
purposes of this discussion; they're a platform; they could have tried
to charge developers for access, and instead they practically beg
people to build on it. And it has worked very well for them.

Luis