Investing time and money into iOS is a risk. Period. This isn't new. Anyone who gets yanked out of the apple's walled garden knew it was a possibility before said investment took place.
It's hard to feel sorry for anyone who gets put through this.
Why I generally agree with you, I see a silver lining on this cloud, namely, in that hundreds of people out there today will have a few minutes away from pixels. It's a Sunday after all---step away from the pixels.
Because tech isn't an industry any more, it's part of mainstream culture, and thus tech "news" has to be watered down or diluted to suit the mainstream audience, hence tech "news" segments being filled with celebrity news and opinion pieces on how evil the industry is because men got into it first.
I attended the Dublin Web Summit[1] recently where talks were given by industry giants including Peter Thiel, John Sculley and many more [2]. It also included a talk by Eva Longoria which amounted to a bizarre and comparatively unsubstantial interview about the life of a celebrity and yet the same tech media reported it as the highlight of the week. Indeed it was the most tweeted about talk of the entire event.
So this is the direction mainstream tech culture is going in, and as tech remains "cool", and being a "geek" remains a quirky attribute people stick on their Twitter profiles, we can expect much more of it to come.
Why are you so angry about her ability to generate revenue? I dont like the values she promotes, but clearly there is a market that really responds to her. Learn from her dont hate.
B. “That chick” is quite successful, plus people actually like that game, you know. Even if you really dislike free-to-play what she does is no more morally repugnant than what many startups do.
