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To Pay or Not to Pay for iPhone Apps?

Here is an exceedingly dumb article from the Time Magazine website. You might want to read it in all its glory, but I will just give you the last paragraph:

If Apple ever does decide to let all iPhone apps be free, it would be a radical departure from its typical way of doing business. To switch to an ad-supported model, it would have to partner with a company that already has a huge inventory of interactive ads. Google would be the most obvious choice, but the search giant is already poised to be Apple’s top rival in the mobile arena once its Android handsets go on sale this fall. Such an alliance might be a little too close for comfort.

So – dear Time writer – in the time you researched this article, where did you miss the part where developers could chose the price of their iPhone apps (including FREE!)?

…And why would free apps automatically have to have an ad-based business model? And since when is Google the only provider of display advertisements?

I know – the more you think about that article, the dumber it gets….

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Who wrote the article and why would time.com allowed such article published in its site?

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If the app will entertain me enough or has value enough I will buy it. If not I can live with out it. I understand why people would pirate everything on principle and hope they can understand that I will not pirate anything on principle.