Middlemen
Speaking of Hewitt and the app store approval process, Steve O’Grady chimes in with his two cents. This point in particular caught my attention:
Ultimately, Hewitt and I might differ on the potential value add of middlemen, because I am a firm believer in the value of marketplaces and centralized distribution. Never more so than after using the package management-less OS X, in fact.
If the argument is that Linux’s various software repositories somehow makes it a better platform than OS X, I disagree. Easy access to ugly software is not a selling point for me.