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How many people would buy a fancy Denon receiver because it support AirPlay? Obviously some would, but I for one would not, so Apple has lost that sale out of the gate. I would however buy an app that gave me some semblance of the same functionality. Albeit, the sound quality coming from my iPhone will never compare to the sound quality coming from a Denon. But then if I really wanted the better sound then I could still buy a Denon. Either way Apple would make money.

Regardless the point is moot, since the reason the app got pulled was because of improper use of APIs. It had nothing to do with a competing product.

OK, point taken, but I still don’t think the argument holds much water. The functionality to provide AirPlay was a paid addon (I never used it but according to the article). Apple makes 30% from each sale of this addon, so I would argue that it costs Apple nothing, and in fact makes them money.

I’m not trying to be snarky, but I am not sure what your point is.

The comment I replied to said

you make something that competes with Apple, you get kicked out of App Store.

I was merely giving proof that this simply was not true. If it were then the App Store would shrink to half it’s current size over night.

This argument is getting so old. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of apps that “compete” with Apple on the App Store. Just do a simple App Store search for Calculator, Calendar, Note, Contact, Compass, Recorder, Map. Almost every result directly competes with an Apple native app.

ROFL
Epic Fail!!

(its a free QA process!

30% off the top is hardly free.

Nobody’s leaving Facebook, EVER, except for maybe 3% of its 900m users, and there’s a ton of room to expand over the next 10 years (to the tune of billions of people), with the proliferation of smartphones in emerging markets.

I can’t believe that people are still saying things like this. Will we never learn? Saying NEVER about any futuristic prediction is just narrow minded.

“Predictions are difficult. Especially about the future.” – Yogi Berra, Baseball player
“Spam will be a thing of the past in two years time.” – Bill Gates BBC News interview (January 24, 2004)

ROFL

I for one do not wonder at all ;-)

Which fight is this?

If Instagram provides the functionality to “achieve the effect you want”, or “to get closer to the idea you had in mind before taking that picture” then how is that limiting your creativity? However, if someone feels that Instagram is limiting their creativity, then they are free to use something else.

Someone is not going to look at a picture and say oh I like this because they didn’t use Instagram. They will like it simply because they like it.

The problem is that so many people try to fit art into their “art shaped box”, and if it doesn’t fit, well then it’s not art.

From a personal standpoint, I don’t like Picaso. It simply does not resonate with me. But whether or not I can get something out of it, does not mean it’s not art.

Is Picaso considered so good because he really is good, or simply because a lot of people say he is? Likewise is a drawing my son did not good because I am the only one that can appreciate it? In both cases the creator took an idea that they had and did something with it, who am I to say what is good or not. Although I am entitled to express what I personally like and don’t like.

Well said sir!!!

It saddens me that some comments here seem to imply that artistic creativity is only for the gifted elite. I am of the mind that everyone is an artist! Art is simply an outward reflection of something within each of us. Granted there are those who are more “gifted”, and can compose a piece of art “correctly”. But does the fact that I am not as artistically “talented”, relegate my outward artistic expression to “not really art”, or even worse, garbage? If you say what one has created is not art, it is no different then saying that their feelings/expressions are not as important or as valid as yours. It is a sad day when we would prefer to stifle outward expression, simply because it does not adhere to a definition that defines art.

I applaud any new technology that gives the masses a medium to express themselves creatively. Art is not for the elite but for everyone.

Feel free to express yourself with the tools you choose, and afford everyone else the same courtesy!