Wednesday, May 11, 2011

iFlowReader Cry-babies Blame Apple For Own Bad Decisions

"Apple is giving us the boot by making it financially impossible to survive" - iFlowReader babies
You based your entire business on the insanely competitive, reeling e-book market; modeled your survival upon one platform, and relied against hope that Apple would maintain a hyper-awareness of you and your hastily considered business needs, above that of their own multivariate interests. Shouldn't you fail just for that alone? As John Gruber put it, "It’s not that Apple is opposed to middlemen — it’s that Apple wants to be the middleman. It’s difficult to expect them to be sympathetic to the plights of other middlemen."

What is stopping you from creating your own original content and distributing that through your iFlowReader if you want to? Or you could sell the source code as a whole or several components for other developers to buy. Or you could re-purpose it. Opportunity abounds.

"They want all of the eBook business on iOS and since they have the unilateral power to get it, we are out of business and the iFlow Reader is dead" - iFlowReader babies
Or how about you create your own hardware and software platform that is so effective the rest of world attempts to copy it, and then you can be the middleman there!

For all those bloggers out there coddling these babies with sympathy, you are creepy. If I was your parent I'd swat all your butts for encouraging this, and send you to your rooms. You're grounded.