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Originally Posted by Silock
What makes them a pain? Take me through the steps that make it a pain. With two taps of my finger, I'm in the app, working around. Hit the home button to quit the current app, and then tap on the new one. Literally two taps. How is that any different than a webpage? Tap the bookmarks, scroll down to link, tap link... page loads.
Again, how is it that different?
That's a lot of hinging on "maybes" and "ifs."
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I wouldn't go so far as to call it a pain, but it's definitely against the recent trend in online technologies. Everything is moving toward platform-neutral programs that live in "the cloud." Meanwhile, Apple is pushing for platform-specific, proprietary programs. Nothing wrong with that from a capitalistic standpoint, but it makes a lot of extra work for developers.
The problem, as I see it, is that Apple's philosophies are starting to annoy the people they need the most - developers. That's fine if they're content to being a niche provider for phones like they're a niche provider for computers - they very well could keep making a reasonable profit on the iPhone/iTouch Senior Citizen Edition platform. But their current philosophies don't lend themselves well to holding onto their dominance in the market now that strong competition is sneaking up from Android.