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I believe you are wrong, and Paul is right, but early.

It take times, years and sometimes decades, but developer love is critically important for a platform.

Not matter how broken the App Store was at launch, it was much better than anything that was available at the time, smartphone business was really messy and completely unfair for devs.

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Being right and early is sometimes indistinguishable from being wrong..

If you are betting on stock yes it might. But if you are talking long term, it can at least be discussed.

Apple owns the users (on the iOS platform), so there's no incentive for them to fix the developer experience in the store. If anything they are being overtly draconian and repeatedly making (petty) displays of the power they lord over devs.

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