With success comes envy and Apple, after decades of being the underdog, is now on the receiving end a wave of success envy.
Many in the industry would say that is a good problem to have and Apple stock and sales seem to agree.
But then you've got the haters. Most would say, who cares. And I agree.
The major objections that people raise with Apple today have to do with the success of the iPhone and the Apps Store. In recent months Apple (not that it did not do so before) has been restricting applications for being available on its Apps Store. Most notably the Google Voice App and s slew of porno apps that developers and some users want Apple to sell badly.
I completely agree with the concert expressed by iPhone owners with Apple restricting Google Voice calling app, not to be confused with Google Voice that has existed on the iPhone for almost a year. Google has been an excellent partner to Apple's growth in the smartphone market, developing excellent apps like Google Maps, Google Earth, and the Google Voice driven search apps that wows non-iPhone users to the point that, I believe, it drives iPhone sales.
Apple has every right to restrict the use of applications on the iPhone that threaten the stability of the iPhone platform. They have the right to restrict apps in their store by shady or unreliable software developers that might infringe upon or sully the iPhone users experience and drive customers away.
But Google is a very reliable partner, a great software developer and they write incredible apps that sell iPhones.
Some critics speculated that in the contract between AT&T and Apple there was a clause that allow AT&T to veto or blackball applications that gave iPhone users the ability to add functions that competed with the AT&T contract. That's highly probable and even understandable since AT&T gives money to Apple in its contract. But AT&T said no, they did not stop the Google calling app from the iPhone.
At that point Apple should have put the Google app up on the Apps Store. End of story.
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Well this isn't true, i am the very good customer for Apple. Apple and evil in Latin are fairly 'similar'; and thus the 'mis-take, all tho I believe they did calculate this error;. for ages was mistaken as Eve being the one to bring mankind down. This was not true
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