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Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by jariel »

redwall_hp wrote: post #191
rubber_duck wrote: post #147

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It bugs me how this is an argument in "app store is not a monopoly". App stores (both Google and Apple) have a huge profit margin which is based on abusing it's position and they are milking the fact that creating competition would cost billions of dollars - this is exactly the situation where a pure market situation ends up being sub-optimal and hurting the consumers. Consider what would happen if Mastercard and Vis…

People have a habit of looking through the wrong end of a telescope when it comes to anti-trust stuff. From a consumer perspective, as someone who already has a phone in-hand and a bunch of vendor lock-in going on, does Apple not have unilateral control over the software market that user has access to? Saying "Android exists" is kind of like saying "you don't have to deal with Standard Oil or the railroads...you can…

The mobile market is de-facto an oligarchy. Android and iOS control everything really. It would be like only having two national airlines. Sure, there are others, but they only do little routes here and there and if you want to go NYC/LA non-stop among many other routes, you have 'no choice'.

It's a new and developing market, and generally it would be nice to let things play out, but, there probably has to be anti-trust action of some kind.

In particular, it's not quite right to think of them as 'devices' or 'os's' - it's about 'all the other stuff' i.e. mapping, search etc..

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by literallycancer »

emsy wrote: post #227
mindslight wrote: post #142

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You can eliminate all Google concerns by installing a Free ROM (eg LineageOS) with F-Droid instead of GApps. I'm not saying that this is what most people are going to do, and I'm certainly not trying to openwash Android-as-marketed-by-Google. Just pointing out the path exists if you'd like to go down it. It helps to have an extra device, to be less tempted to compromise [with] your main one.

I did this some years ago. The problem nowadays is that I don’t have much time to fiddle with my phone OS. My second issue is that Google systematically designed Play services so that Google free devices are basically neutered. You’ll miss out on a lot of features.

You can use Aurora store. Fiddling with OS is only required for obscure phones, if you have a mainstream high-end phone with a large dev community you'll probably never run into a problem.

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by dkersten »

ac29 wrote: post #198
bottled_poe wrote: post #179

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It looks like you may be out of touch with the global market

There are substantial portions of the world where median income per household is 10000USD or less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

Do people who live there own an iphone or a macbook? If not, how are they developing for those devices?

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by literallycancer »

ffpip wrote: post #76
sschueller wrote: post #35

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The play store is getting worse and worse. It will eventually end up being just a bad. Meanwhile every iteration of Android is getting more locked down because of "security". No more external cameras etc.. The future look bleak until we get a true open source alternative running on open hardware.

God. I just stopped opening the play store. Everything is ads and autoplaying videos. I added the update shortcut to homescreen to go straight to updates

Use Aurora store. Use an adblock.

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by saagarjha »

distances wrote: post #223
redwall_hp wrote: post #192

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My iPhone (SE) cost $400. The iPhone 11 is $699. Competitive hardware on the Android side is trending more expensive from brands like Samsung.

Competition for SE is the Pixel A line, $350.

That hardware is hardly competitive.

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by dariosalvi78 »

zelly wrote: post #210
fermienrico wrote: post #10

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Unpopular opinion that I hold: The walled garden is exactly why I love Apple's iPhone. iPhone keeps the rifraff away, third-party sniffers at check, they've recently added clipboard notification if some app tries to paste random stuff from my clipboard (given that we use it so much for 1Password and other password managers). I absolutely do not trust any third party - there are some insane apps like LinkedIn that tri…

Most of the world agrees with you which is why they keep buying iPhones as soon as they can afford them

People don't understand what's at stake, just ask around. People buy iPhones because they're "nice" and because their best friend has got one and he/she's showing off how expensive it was.

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by dariosalvi78 »

robotnixon wrote: post #71
rewq4321 wrote: post #61

From the replies (@mysl_co): > Hey Matt, When I open the Help Center from the app, I can get guidance about upgrading to one of your paid plans. If I tap on “Plans” as seen the screenshot, the app opens Safari and shows the plans. This is a violation according to App Store Review Guidelines. > Here is the relevant term that your app violated: 3.1.3(a) Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or co…

My company had our apps flagged because our links to support documentation included our logo, which took you to our homepage, where you could presumably find contact information for our sales department and contact us to purchase. At the time we didn't even have the ability purchase online as our app was only a portal to the enterprise product we were selling which had custom pricing. We ended up removing the support…

But then people could ask support to buy your services!

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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danShumway wrote: post #149

I've commented this elsewhere, but Apple encouraging users to only upgrade and purchase subscriptions through Apple's payment systems and hiding in-app alternatives and links to other options isn't just about the 30% fee. It also increases consumer lock-in to the Apple ecosystem. If the only thing you're using your phone for is calling, browsing, and buying apps, it's not that hard to switch to Android. You lose all…

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Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by Razengan »

marmada wrote: post #235

It feels like there's a tragedy of the commons situation here -- imagine if Amazon, Spotify, Google, and others unilaterally decided to block Apple. This would surely result in Apple folding

As if Amazon and Google are saints. Even if they colluded to "block" Apple (which would be illegal), millions of people would still continue using Apple.
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