Umair Haque is at his usual stimulating and frustrating best in a recent post comparing Apple and Facebook’s third party application strategies. Stimulating because he is looking at an important topic and pointing out interesting differences. Frustrating because Umair’s free wheeling style and usage of otherwise well defined terms leads to conclusions that seem unwarranted (at least to me). There are two important differences between the Apple application model and the Facebook modelApple all...

Umair Haque is at his usual stimulating and frustrating best in a recent post comparing Apple and Facebook’s third party application strategies. Stimulating because he is looking at an important topic and pointing out interesting differences. Frustrating because Umair’s free wheeling style and usage of otherwise well defined terms leads to conclusions that seem unwarranted (at least to me). There are two important differences between the Apple application model and the Facebook modelApple all...