Comments on: Report: iPhone “miles ahead” of competing app stores http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/03/02/report-iphone-%e2%80%9cmiles-ahead%e2%80%9d-of-competing-app-stores/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John E http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/03/02/report-iphone-%e2%80%9cmiles-ahead%e2%80%9d-of-competing-app-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-17723 John E Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:03:37 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3266#comment-17723 that's a great chart. the App Store is classic "disruptive" technology - the apps are dramatically cheaper (by an order of magnitude), much better (thanks to a brilliant SDK), and far easier to install/update ("apps for dummies") than anything the competition has. they may catch up in two years, but the business will never be the same. adios Handango! one result is admittedly a new fad: everybody in the media universe has to have their own branded app! TV.com (soon to be followed by all the portals no doubt), even Kindle. well, it's fun. that’s a great chart. the App Store is classic “disruptive” technology – the apps are dramatically cheaper (by an order of magnitude), much better (thanks to a brilliant SDK), and far easier to install/update (“apps for dummies”) than anything the competition has. they may catch up in two years, but the business will never be the same. adios Handango!

one result is admittedly a new fad: everybody in the media universe has to have their own branded app! TV.com (soon to be followed by all the portals no doubt), even Kindle. well, it’s fun.

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