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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Mar 31, 2012 14:54 UTC (Sat) by krake (subscriber, #55996)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by Cato
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

One problem with these "apple" stores is that they are designed for vendors with tiny portfolios.

Any vendor with a non trivial portfolio has components that are shared between its applications, some applications like office or creativity suites are specifically designed that way.

I can understand that those store services stay away from global dependencies sharable between vendors, but vendor internal dependencies would be handled by the vendor itself.


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