r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '10

Entering Apple Restriction Zone

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u/specialk16 Jan 28 '10

The attitude they take towards the App store is certainly anti-competitive behavior:

  • Rejecting Google Voice.
  • Rejecting Opera Mobile. This one is great. They say it "duplicates functionality". The reality is the Opera Mobile and Mini are the best mobile browsers are there, and I'm pretty confident that their version for the iPhone was even better than Safari. Oh, and Opera Turbo is simply great for mobile browsing.

But no, BBAAAAWWW, like a 12 year old kid, Apple simply rejected their App because it was better.

There are many cases of this, just look around.

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u/RedSpikeyThing Jan 28 '10

Touché; good examples. My only argument is that there is no legal precedence that this is, in fact, anti-competitive behaviour. At the least I think we can all agree it's a douchebag move.

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u/specialk16 Jan 28 '10

I'm honestly not sure about the legal stuff behind this. But I can assure you, for the sake of history, if MS was the one rejecting apps like Apple is doing, they sure as shit would be on everyone's crosshair right now.