The Angry Drunk

We fea­ture the work of Joe Wilcox at Betanews fairly fre­quently on Ye Olde Angry Mac Bastards pod­cast, mainly because he’s a rav­ing lunatic, but the fes­ter­ing turd that he pub­lished yes­ter­day forced me to take direct action. The head­line reads Apple should ban free­bees from the iPad App Store and that essen­tially sums up the arti­cle. Joe argues that, in order to dis­tin­guish the iPad from the iPod Touch and the iPhone, Apple should set a pol­icy that no free appli­ca­tions can be offered via the iPad App Store.

Apple shouldn’t treat iPad like iPhone or iPod touch. The iPad App Store should be stocked full of pre­mium con­tent, mean­ing no free­bees. It’s the right way to help estab­lish iPad as a pre­mium prod­uct, as some­thing spe­cial like the Macintosh. Unfortunately, Apple has lit­tle incen­tive to take this right approach ben­e­fit­ing its devel­op­ers (because they make more money), cus­tomers (because they get bet­ter qual­ity apps) and the iPad brand (because it comes be to viewed as a more pre­mium product).

Ok, excuse me for a sec­ond while I go stick my cock in a light socket. I need to reboot my brain.

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All right

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