" '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.'"
is clearly in agreement with what he replied to:
"this notion that Apple actively tried to kill iFlowReader is pure geek fantasy... Apple did not give a shit about them."
I made a stronger claim than that; I said, nobody with any influence over app store terms and conditions had ever even heard of iFlowReader. I'm trying to convey how absurd it sounds that Apple would tailor its corporate strategy to an independent software product with so little traction or market impact.
If you think they did, you're free to think that. I think it's profoundly unlikely that they even knew about them.
You are probably right, but is it possible they saw the type of business that iFlowReader what doing, not them in particular but the general idea, as something they wanted to be in and they were looking at making it hard for others to compete? I do have to admit I'm implying they were trying to be mischievous and I hardly have proof of that but it's just I possibility.
