Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Sep 2008 07:50 UTC
The situation regarding Apple's App Store for the iPhone is getting weirder by the day. Several applications have been rejected from the App Store based on seemingly dubious claims such as duplication of functionality (even though they didn't duplicate anything), or alikeness to default applications. Two such cases made headline news over the past few days; Podcaster and MailWrangler. The developers of these applications openly protested against these rejections, and apparently, Apple doesn't really like that. Apple now reiterates that rejections fall under the NDA, prohibiting developers from speaking up about rejections.
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2005-11-15
Well, there are two ways to spin this story - one is to say that PC manufacturers were too cheap to pay the royalty fees that Apple wanted. The other is to say that Apple set their royalty price too high for component manufacturers (who were already operating under tight margins). See these stories for more details
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990115S0019
http://news.com.com/2100-1040_3-220209.html
Intel offered component makers the USB technology royalty-free which no doubt helped USB gain ascendancy despite its initial inferiority in terms of speed.