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It actually isn’t. When you have a choice between paying a premium and paying half as much like 85% of the world. It isn’t a monopoly.
The duopoly controls distribution. That's the classic definition of a cartel. Google and Apple are a cartel. They made the world worse than it was for software distribution. It used to be open in the 90's and 00's.
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Well, you chose to own an iPhone knowing it didn’t meet your requirements. Do you need the government to protect you from your own decisions?
Given that (a) no smartphone exists that is a perfect fit for my ideal requirements and (b) having some smartphone is now almost essential to function normally within society I would say yes, I absolutely do want the government to intervene. Market competition is obviously not doing the job, and none of us individually is strong enough to force the issue with the suppliers. That is exactly the situation where regulat…
Well I don't know what to say apart from this is incredibly selfish.
You can't find a product suited to your particular esoteric requirements so you want the government to force someone else to perform labour to build the product you want.
Can you see how wacky that sounds when you write it out like that?
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Can you name one category of app that Apple sells where there aren’t competitors on the App Store?
Literally being debated right now. https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/29/apple-ceo-tim-cook-questio...
Were you also against Apple disabling enterprise certificates when Google and Facebook were using it to spy on users - not just their own employees?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4285862
Words Mean Things. That lawsuit didn’t initiate under Cook.
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Well, you chose to own an iPhone knowing it didn’t meet your requirements. Do you need the government to protect you from your own decisions?
Given that (a) no smartphone exists that is a perfect fit for my ideal requirements and (b) having some smartphone is now almost essential to function normally within society I would say yes, I absolutely do want the government to intervene. Market competition is obviously not doing the job, and none of us individually is strong enough to force the issue with the suppliers. That is exactly the situation where regulat…
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Literally being debated right now. https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/29/apple-ceo-tim-cook-questio...
You mean Apple removing apps that literally let a third party control your phone and spy on everything you do? Were you also against Apple disabling enterprise certificates when Google and Facebook were using it to spy on users - not just their own employees?
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Spotify never implemented those APIs. There were other apps e.g. Podcast ones that used it.
They did, Apple just rejected their app... https://www.timetoplayfair.com/timeline/
And then kicked up a fuss when Apple said no.
When actual APIs were released Spotify never bothered to implement them for quite some time.
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I'm aware that I can avoid installing a second store and not run any software that comes from it. The issue I'm pointing out is that software that's currently available through the App Store could move exclusively to alternatives if given the option. Like that time when Epic Games said "We don't want to use the Google Play Store, so if you want to play Fortnite you have to install it from the Fortnite Installer". And…
But then, simply don't run that software. Vote with your wallet. Use a competitor that remains on the App Store. Why deprive others of the choice, in favor of a single entity in charge- a single point of failure? I thought it was a truism in tech that monocultures are a bad thing?
Believe it or not I had an Android phone before and decided I like Apple's system better.
If it were my only computing device and I needed to run a bittorrent client I acknowledge it would be a problem, but like I said elsewhere in the comments, it's a trade-off.
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the convenience of not having 8 different game updater/launcher clients Obligatory glance over at Steam goes here. Apple’s App Store policies also limit 3rd party software’s ability to fuck up my devices in a myriad of ways. It would be a much safer solution if Apple's operating system limited 3rd party software's ability to do things it shouldn't. Trying to filter malware at the app store level might improve your od…
> Obligatory glance over at Steam goes here. • Steam (Valve) • Uplay (Ubisoft) • Origin (EA) • Epic (Epic) • Galaxy (CDProjekt) • LoL Launcher (Riot) • Battle.net (Blizzard) • Twitch (Amazon) • Minecraft Launcher (Mojang) Probably others I'm missing. Can't wait to have a whole home screen dedicated to different app stores because each one has a single exclusive game that I wanted to play