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I made a similar comment in one of the "Apple" threads going on.

This is sharecropping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping

Care to explain that a bit? I fail to see a direct parallel between farmland tenancy arrangements and Apple's relationship to iOS developers.

Also, that's a mighty powerful rhetorical weapon (going all the way back to African-American slavery) to be dropping in a discussion about some ticked-off software developers.

There should be a digital example on wiki but I believe he's referring to this article of a digital sharecropper: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/are-you-a-digital-s...

That's the one. Probably should have linked to that.

I think I heard the term way before that when we were all "application service providers" in the late 90's.

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