The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

The ridiculous situation around Apple’s AppStore review process.

“A new reviewer is apparently all it takes to endanger the jobs of 45 employees and to kill a product that clearly filled a niche…”

The problem is, though, that too many business models are based on the existence and good-will of one other company (same with Facebook et al.)

It might feel as if they are your subcontractors, but in fact, it is just the other way around: you are nothing but one of quite a plentiful cheap (well, even quite profitable, to be honest) suppliers in an unknown territory of flaky despotism.