Apple Blocks iOS Apps Using Dropbox SDK

Barence writes with an excerpt from PC Pro: "Dropbox's latest SDK has incurred the wrath of Apple, because users who don't have the Dropbox app installed on their iPhone/iPad are instead pushed to Dropbox's website via the Safari browser. Here, they can click a link to the desktop version of the service, which allows them to buy extra Dropbox storage without Apple taking its usual 30% cut." Reportedly, Dropbox is attempting to strike a deal to resolve the problem.

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apple is clearly doomed

[alen]

i bet this is the last straw that will send everyone to android

apple will be like RIM by this time next year

Re:How dare they...

[zr]

If the cab driver was stopped for speeding where the laws were not clearly posted, or were deliberately confusing, yes, I would blame the cop for setting a speed trap. You know, speed traps - designed solely to bring in more income.

If that were the case you'd have a point, but that doesnt appear to be the case. Apple is pretty clear about soliciting business through apps, they acted swiftly and as such there's a good likelihood that it wont happen again from others.

So while I agree this has been an inconvenience, I also think on balance its a good thing for the greater apple community.

Re:How dare they...

[Samalie]

Wait, I thought Andriod was in the "dominant position"?

Fandriods, MS Shills, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Either Apple is a horrible monopoly abusing their dominant market position to the detriment of everyone else, or Apple carries the #2 Smartphone OS, has competition that is beating them, and therefore all this monopolistic bullshit you love to spew is, well, bullshit.

Consumers have options. Fuck, iOS users have an option....jailbreak the devices. Developers have options....if Apple is so anti-dev anti-competition my-way-or-the-highway assholes to the devs, why haven't the devs taken their shiny toys and gone home?

Oh right...because they make an asspile of cash off of iOS even with the Apple Cut.

Seriously though, why all the rhetoric and bullshit? Boycott Apple/iOS (as a dev OR consumer) if you don't like their policies. Fuck Apple, take your toys and go play in Android or RIM's sandboxes.