Beyond the app store

It’s rather late for me to jump in on the app store discussions but I think there might be a simple way to get to the core of people’s objections to the new rules: Apple is now telling developers what to do outside of the app store. It’s hard to argue that Apple can decide what that goes on in the app store - it’s their store, their platform and their devices. What’s more difficult for people to swallow is that to be part of the app store you now have to let Apple tell you how to run your business and set your pricing outside of their platform. I think that’s what really stinks.