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Part 2 of our discussion with The Mac Observer\u2019s Daily Observations Podcast\xa0hosts Bryan Chaffin,\xa0Kelly Guimont, and John Martellaro\xa0about Apple\u2019s relationship and obligations to its competitors, investors, and users wraps up in this episode. More examples from other industries, and why they may or may not apply to the App Store and Apple\u2019s platform, the options competitors have, and why the legal, realistic, and idealistic positions don\u2019t, and probably can\u2019t, line up.\xa0

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Bryan Chaffin\xa0began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko\u2019s guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. Bryan is the cofounder of\xa0The Mac Observer\xa0and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob \u201cDr. Mac\u201d LeVitus. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site,\xa0GeekTells, and\xa0follow him on\xa0Twitter.

Kelly Guimont\xa0is a longtime Apple geek, sitting down (on a telephone book) in front of an Apple IIe in 1983. She can still hear the ticking of the ImageWriter. Thanks to the miracle of the adjustable leg desk, she no longer needs the phonebook. Kelly writes for\xa0The Mac Observer, is the host of the\xa0Daily Observations Podcast, is co-host of\xa0The Aftershow,\xa0and yet still has more to say which she saves for\xa0Twitter\xa0and Micro.blog.

John Martellaro\xa0\xa0is the Senior Editor for Reviews and Analysis at\xa0The Mac Observer, and host of the \xa0Background Mode\xa0podcast. \xa0Previously,he has worked for NASA, Lockheed Martin Astronautics,the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and\xa0Apple. At Apple, he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include all things Apple, chess, science fiction and astronomy.You can follow John on\xa0Twitter, and hear his insightful interviews with tech and science luminaries on his podcast, Background Mode.

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