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Comment by napierzaza | Hacker News Reader

These bait posts are annoying. Apple supplies the distribution, payment, promotion and a centralized market that can get you thousands of sales just by being good and on the store.

So how are you monetizing your web app? You taking payments? Paying bandwidth? Advertising?

Web apps are fine, but they're something ELSE not something better. Apple is doing some lifting on the App Store and they get a cut, that's it.

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>>These bait posts are annoying.

I agree and the content was mostly meaningless and shallow.

So why did it become the #1 post on HN ? My theory is that a large number of people have big ideological problems with the app store (and/or Apple)

I am one of the people that has ideological problems with the app store, but after reading the article I chose not to upvote it. It seams to ignore all of the things that the app store does provide that have been enumerated in many comments here already. As much as I am annoyed when Apple fans upvote or downvote things on HN based solely on loyalty to the brand, I can't give the linked article much credit.

I did find this link from a comment on the article page interesting though:

http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/ch03.html#ch03_...

> So why did it become the #1 post on HN ?

My theory is that this place has become overrun with .NET enterprise developers who immediately up-vote any title that paints Apple in a bad light.

I'm a ".NET enterprise developer", have two macs and two iPhones in my house, and am working on my first iOS app. Your bitter sweeping generalization is flawed and in my opinion has no place on HN.

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