How Apple's App Store is like McDonald's

What? What a waste of a post.. Getting desperate to keep your post count up? Good luck!

Leaving innovation up to your competitors isn't much of a business plan. Remember that even in your example you're referring to the McDonald's competitor as a "fast-food also-ran". In fact, you don't even remember that company's name!

So quick and easy yes. Effective, possibly not so much. By chasing someone else's tail, you might end up running the *next* company that someone doesn't remember the name of.

A useless comment like this in a so-called major business magazine is a clear statement on why America is largely in trouble. The real story is the booming success of the iPhone which has revolutionized handheld communication, just as the iPod did to music sales. Instead of criticizing the genius of Apple, BW should be asking why aren't more American companies as inventive. Such as the auto industry. If Apple were making cars, we would be living in another world of personal transportation.

The Apple app store is currently a reminder of how the internet was a dozen years ago: it's the wild, wild west with apps that no one asked for and no one needs just like there were (and still are of course) websites that no one asked for an no one needs. the difference is that some of these cost money and by and large most of the ones that charge are joke.

It's Apple's ship that all these rats are riding on, it should be Apple's responsibility to filter threw the garbage and make their store one that they are proud of and that the customers really like. To date, that is not the deal.

I have no idea what the hell you're talking about, insert rabbit with pancake here.

Also, please re-read your first sentence. It's missing something...

Looks to me that's almost exactly what Android + HTC are doing with their new HTC Hero with it's own "widget" styled interface..