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by forbiddenvoid 2189 days ago
The irony of this is that they have a marketplace and very large user base exactly because of the developers that have built for their platform.
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musicale 2189 days ago
It's cyclic - the developers wouldn't have been able to build software for the iPhone if Apple hadn't developed the iPhone and the App store in the first place. But the App Store would be useless (see Windows Phone et al.) if there were no software in it.
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TLightful 2188 days ago
Cyclic?

More accurately: Checkmate.

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