Can an Apple, divided against itself, stand?  Can an Apple,
divided against itself, stand?  Speaking of John Siracusa, he
has an interesting post up on his Fat Bits blog concerning the
Apple strategy tax -- whether Apple's increasingly divergent
interests, from iTunes to iOS to App Store to iAds, will
inevitably lead to compromise, contention, and/or conflict.
Apple's recent App Store changes, however logical and
empirically justifiable they may seem, all point strongly to a
company that has started to believe that what's good for Apple
is good for America. And indeed, this may be the only way to
reconcile the inherent conflict of interest. The alternative is
philosophically and practically untenable. Apple can try to be a
good platform owner and ensure that popular apps like Kindle and
Netflix thrive on iOS, and it can also try to advance its own
competing services like iBooks and iTunes, but both efforts
cannot succeed to their fullest potential.  So the new 30%
subscription policy can increase revenue but