Yes, it's great when husband stops beating his wife. What a great husband!
The policy was greedy, and current policy is not a complete reversal — any other purchase systems and even linking to an external shop are still forbidden.
The policy was greedy, and current policy is not a complete reversal — any other purchase systems and even linking to an external shop are still forbidden.
People do bad stuff for any number of reasons but stopping doing bad stuff is always a good thing.
Also, I find the metaphor quite apt.
Each to their own I guess.
EDIT: My point is that it's a bad metaphor not because there are no links between the two but, as with most heavily emotive metaphors, it comes with too much baggage which distracts from the intended message.
A metaphor doesn't have to be a perfect match for what it's describing but the broad content and emotional tone should be similar and here I think it's hard to justify that this is the case.
And yes, that is the point of the metaphor.
I'm happy to accept that negative is reasonable here, I don't accept that emotive in this way this metaphor is, is useful or a good reflection of the situation.
https://www.iflowreader.com/Closing.aspx
http://blog.readability.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-apple/
And those are just the tip of iceberg. Is killing the dreams of small businesses built on months of blood and sweat and money for no good reason an acceptable practice?
In terms of iflow their level of innovation was minimal and they started their business on a platform that took a cut of music sales and a cut of app sales and were then surprised that Apple wanted a cut of other sales.
Readability I'm very slightly more sad about because their model was slightly more interesting but fundamentally it's business and if you put yourself in a position where you're beholden to someone who has shown themselves to be ruthless then I can't get too worked up about it.
At what point do the people at iflowreader and readability put on their big boy pants and take some responsibility for lack of their dreams coming true?
The original [great great grandparent] comparison was not primarily noting the congruence between Apple's behavior and wife beating, but rather the congruence between the praise some people were giving Apple for their change of behavior and praising someone for ceasing to beat their spouse.
Things aren't that black and white, it's not a case of 100% good or 100% bad.
While the ideal would be that they'd got it right first time, it's clearly better that they correct their mistakes than continue with them.
And we should praise people for doing things that make things better because they should have the greatest possible incentive for doing so.
The reality is that companies only do things for their own benefit, directly or indirectly, Apple, Google and everyone else included and we shouldn't kid ourselves that they do anything else. Google don't make Android because they love freedom or giving stuff away, they do it because they make shedloads of cash through advertising off the back of mobile internet use on a platform they control. You may love the side effect but I honestly think you're kidding yourself if you think they're doing it out of altruism - after all, don't be evil is looking pretty flakey in quite a few areas now.
(And please note I'm not trying to make this an Apple vs. Google thing, I'm just saying that this is what companies do - they do what works and makes them money).
But ultimately when people screamed and shouted for them to change this stuff, what outcome were you looking for other than it be changed? People spoke and acted, they listened, surely that's good?
Right before the date arrived - In the analogy, a therapist would probably classify the behavior as emotional abuse.
In the real world, the negative feedback came right away, however Apple let the consequences of their announcement play out and thereby drove potential competitors from the markets in which they are interested.
In addition, Apple did not admit their behavior was wrong, nor did Apple commit to avoid similar behavior in the future.