Originally Posted by
pdxer
apple is not preventing in-app purchases. some developers decided to sell directly instead of in the app store. a common complaint about ios is being locked into the app store and now that some sellers are using their own store, people still complain.
maybe for you it is but most people don't find it to be a limitation. just look at ipad sales, they're vastly outselling tablets that can use flash. more and more web sites are moving to html5 and there are also native apps that eliminate needing a browser and offer a much better user experience.
It doesn't matter what the argument is.
Can you imagine if Microsoft charged 30% for all content you purchased using Windows software? People would have massive outcry about evil Microsoft doing that.
Yet here people give evil giant Apple a free pass on doing the same exact thing.
Same thing with Flash. I as a consumer bought the damn thing, I have a right to use flash on it if I wish. Why should Apple prevent me from doing that? Imagine if Microsoft / Windows did the same thing, prevent you from installing software that it deemed not good for you.
How people are being blinded by Apple's insidious behavior, and yet then defending them, is unblievable.
Further more, outside of these discussions, the impacts are real towards consumers, such as myself. Android was slow to gain steam against iPhone, but now it is the top mobile OS for phones. Tablets shall evolve the same way. The iPad is dominant right now because there is no really good Android tablet that can compete right now, but slowly they are chipping away iPad's dominance. In another year or two we shall see Android tablets that will be as good, if not better than iPads, dominating the tablet market.
Back to this topic, using the iPad is a pain in the butt, because of the lack of a real file system. Android has a real file system, on top of flash, on top of the freedom to have apps you choose to use, that makes it really appealing as a real mobile tool, as opposed to the toy, that my iPad 2 is.