Новости за 29.09.2015

Stop the presses! The venerable Apple App Store has been compromised! Yes, it’s shocking news. No, it’s not the end of the world. Don’t label me an Apple apologist, but there are some things to be said in its defense. And more importantly, there are some things to be learned from this event, both by Apple and others.

In the earliest days of e-commerce, retail execs envisioned a Utopian merged channel future. As the percentage of retail dollars ever so slowly creeped toward digital storefronts, they dreamed of ever-increasing profits — on the rationale that online operations have lower overhead than bricks-and-mortar.