How Not To Critique App Monetization Strategies

One of the Christmas season's big mobile apps is rolling out today - and a notably weird review of Rovio's "Angry Birds Go" in The Verge is a good example of how confused or misguided criticism of the app industry can be. The Verge admonished "Angry Birds Go" for adopting the single most effective revenue generation innovation the freemium app industry has ever seen - and then complimented "Plants Vs. Zombies 2" for "showing that it's possible to have a free game with in-app purchases that aren'...