[ale] [OT] Are iPhone apps $$$ why Android apps are free?

[David Hillman]

I like both iOS and Android.  There are quality products on both sides.  I
have purchased products from both
camps and love them equally.  If you build a quality product that customers
actually want to use and buy,
there will be no need for lock-in.  To me, lock-in shows a company that is
insecure about their own ability to
innovate and bring value to their customers over time.  I have a few Apple
products and I don't think they
have lock-in at all.  I bought those products because they felt solid and
well-engineered.  However, I like
FOSS, so iPodLinux (uCLinux) runs on my iPod and Android is running on my
iPhone 3G.  Apple police didn't
come banging on my door when I chose to do that.

Apple is one of the few big tech companies that actually cares about open
standards, like XML and HTML 5.  That
extends down to the hardware level.  The chips in their devices tend to be
high quality and work to spec.  Half
of the functionality won't be implement in software.  Soft (Win)modem
anyone?



On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>wrote:

> On 06/10/2011 12:06 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:13 -0400, Stephen R. Blevins wrote:
> >> "Vendor Lock-in?"
> > I will never save Vendor Lock-in in bad.  In fact,  I love it.  I
> > respect those that get away with it.  Why?  Because they've found a way
> > to maximize revenue.
> >
> > You guys treat Apple like the bad guy but the truth is that it is the
> > customers who have locked their selves up.
> >
> > Look at the turmoil going on in the PBX market now.  Avaya is known to
> > have taken lock-in to a new level.  They bought the PBX portion of
> > Nortel that has no lock-in.  The Nortel dealers are up in arms.
> >
> > Avaya knows what so many people are learning.  The margins on hardware a
> > razor thin and it is maintenance services that keep the lights on.  Try
> > owning an Avaya PBX now without a maintenance contract and see how far
> > you get.  You don't even have the admin permissions on these systems.
> >
> When there is freePBX why would anyone ever buy Avaya?
>
> I'm quite happy with my (small) pbx.
>
> Jim.
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