The AppStore, and Google Play to a lesser extent, are closed and mysterious worlds, especially when you compare them with “the web”, yes, you know, this old thing whose “end” is proclaimed by Wired every other year. The one with lolcats, if you still didn’t make the difference.
Mugunth Kumar, a pro iOS developer, gave us yesterday at the Plug-In in Singapore a good overview of the appstore economics, and began with a truth: “don’t lament over it, except if you’re a journalist, and learn to play within these closed walls.”
