The App Store: How The Largest Online Mobile Application Store Negatively Affects Our Lives As Five Cases Have Been Revealed! What Are They?
July10, 2008 when Apple App was born. Only six year has passed and 60 billion apps have already been already downloaded from the platform, making it one of the history's largest store.
As Apple and Google are to release their app storeJulys, It is somehow worth-pausing for a moment to get the dark issues acknowledged and its impact on our lives.
1. Is Apple the Supreme Court of our digital lives? - 89% of our lives are spent on the app usages, While they, the apps, occupy a vast part of our lives, We remain totally innocent on the fact that they are controlled by Apple and Google that appoints us on what we should do online.
2. We are willingly giving Apple and Google full control over our digital lives - The app stores are endlessly fun and are truly amazing. Sometimes we can't avoid discovering new apps every Thursday when new app is on the "Featured list", Apple and Google is creating a great mass of population by fitting to all what we need: "Hey, There's an app for that!"
3. A 30 percent commission is an outrage - On the 60 billion apps being downloaded with almost high percentage of free apps, 30% commission is large amount to gain. Excluding those app that require a handsome amount of bucks to get.
4. The TV is Changing - On the near future, AppleTV will be released soon, Probably its developers might talk about how successful it can be, One can never be so optimistic, being a full-web browser and streaming device because it took a long time after Apple release a fully-working browser.
5. The Web should be free and accessible for everyone - No single entity can control what goes online or not, No filtering process. One thing that we should hope for is for Google and Apple shpuld be transparent regarding their policy. While there is a need for profit maximization, We, as there valued customers also have the right and authority to select.
