cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Since I'm here, I'll just add that proprietary software app stores and the like have never been about quality. It's about rapidly and cheaply (in the sense of letting others do the work) creating a "market" a vendor can point at to bolster whatever platform they're shilling. Copying the form and function of these things without thinking through their purpose is likely a mistake.