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Originally Posted by anyonebutedmonton
Why should Apple as a company give a damn about users who are using other OS's?
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They shouldn't. What some people in this thread are against is Apple limiting the development choices of people developing for Apple. Those limitations are still imposed whether or not the development tools are not being used for cross-platform development. This still affects Apple developers (and therefore users).
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Originally Posted by anyonebutedmonton
They have made this choice to increase the quality of the Apps their users have access to. They could not care less about an android user.
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Well, whether it increases quality or not is what we've been debating for the past few pages. There's a difference between using a EULA to impose limitations to improve the quality of a product that also may hurt the competition and using the EULA solely to hurt the competition.
Microsoft ran into hot water for bundling IE with their operating system because it was seen as anti-competitive to other browsers. Imagine much trouble they'd have been in if they had a line in their EULA that made it illegal to run any cross-platform browser on Windows (Firefox, Safari, etc). I'm not saying that's equivalent to this situation, just providing an example of how placing restrictions in the EULA can be a big deal.