Readability Blog

Everytime a big company implements a feature or rolls out something, they affect companies working in that area.
You can find similar things about almost any company or person, but for some reason the bad things about Microsoft are always amplified.

For example, see how Google squashed Skyhook

http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-lawsuit-motorola-samsung/

Aliyun and Acer prevented from launching a phone because of the secret rules of the "Open" Handset Alliance.
http://www.zdnet.com/cn/report-google-stops-acer-from-launching-aliyun-phone-in-china-7000004246/

Apple and the famed 30% cut of even sales from Apps, an example of how they used someone's OSS code in Safari and then banned them from the app store:

http://blog.readability.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-apple/

My point is that someone fed a steady diet of bad stories about one company while barely being exposed to good stories ends up not liking them and everyone knows how many tech sites and journalists and news sites like Slashdot and HN's bias in story selection because of the vocal minority who sometimes appear to be on a crusade of ends justifying the means.

>Apple takes a cut on sales because that's what store's do. If I sell cereal to a supermarket and you walk in and buy a box, the store does not give me all of that money. Why? Because the store worked hard to get that customer to walk in. Similarly Apple worked hard to make ITMS and App Store work, bringing millions of customers to the apps and music. And no one calls the supermarket's cut a tithe either.

The tithe reference is to the content, not the cut of the cost of an app, which Apple neither hosts nor delivers, but takes a 30% cut of.

Eg. http://blog.readability.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-apple/

Also, why can't your argument extend to ISPs? They have done all the hard work getting the customer, why shouldn't they be able to charge YouTube for allowing them to show ads to their customers?

So the following blog posts don't hold any such connotations for you?

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?

>To be clear, we believe you have every right to push forward such a policy. In our view, it’s your hardware and your channel and you can put forth any policy you like.

http://blog.readability.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-apple/

Plenty of other examples here:

http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22It%27s+Apple%27s+hardware%22