The iPhone is revolutionizing the mobile computing market, largely on the strength of its "it just works" credentials. The availability of easily-downloaded apps from the app store is one of the iPhone's big strength. However, the app store has its dark side both for developers and users.
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Member since:2005-11-10
Before this goes too far, can we get some lateral perspective.
Apple and Microsoft are companies that make products and provide them for sale under certain terms. They are not "evil" because people disagree with their terms and their terms are nothing more than restrictions on the use of the product you buy. They don't kill kittens, or generally affect anybody outside the users of their products.
All this evil-calling should be directed at a genuinely evil company, like Coca-Cola.
Member since:2005-07-13
Kroc, tisk tisk. when you said we should focus on a truly evil company I was thinking....oh i don't know....SCO 
they seem to easily come to mind.
or http://www.vhemt.org/
they arn't really "bad" persay as I am sure some people might agree with them to an extent, but lets just call it bad for business as people.
Edited 2008-09-26 22:43 UTC
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2006-12-22
There is not a dark side. Microsoft did bad practices in the PC area where they own it. And they were forced very often to go back by anti-monopolist trials.
Apple own their products and do even worse than MS right now for their users.
They is not the dark side, but Apple do bad policies... which name may be put to Apple?