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rmrfrmrf on July 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Banned for Life

I think you missed the part where Microsoft and Apple had completely different core businesses.

api on July 28, 2014 [–]

I'm talking about how mobile platforms are completely locked down and gated, with app stores taking ~30% of your app revenue and no ability to install what you want.

That sort of thing would never have been tolerated in the PC world, yet in the mobile work nobody seems to care.

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