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>>reacto+(OP)
What's strange to me is that the main author of the spec -- Ben Wiser -- seems to be against closed, wall-garden paradigms as he has written in a blog post "I just spent £700 to have my own app on my iPhone" [1]. In the post, he laments the state of the App Store monopoly on iOS and ponders returning to Android for the app installation freedom.

How can he reconciliate these views with this spec, which he is the main author of? Surely Ben sees the parallels?

He writes: "Apple’s strategy with this is obvious, and it clearly works, but it still greatly upsets me that I couldn’t just build an app with my linux laptop. If I want the app to persist for longer than a month, and to make it easy for friends to install, I had to pay $99 for a developer account. Come on Apple, I know you want people to use the app story but this is just a little cruel. I basically have to pay $99 a year now just to keep using my little app."

It's honestly comical and a little sad.

[1]: http://benwiser.com/blog/I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-o...

>>quenix+Wg
And he uses a Linux laptop!

> Apple’s strategy with this is obvious, and it clearly works, but it still greatly upsets me that I couldn’t just build an app with my linux laptop.

Ben, you've thought about the impact your proposal would have on Linux laptop users, right? Surely you sometimes use your laptop for banking, right?