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Re: Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

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Post by lionkor »

bambax wrote: post #97

There are no solutions for suspensions from app stores. The solution is to not use app stores -- build better webapps, use the open web. We could be living in a world where no open web ever existed, where everything would be filtered through app stores and closed environments like Facebook (AOL). We need to preserve the open web, it is our most precious ressource.

I dont agree, personally.

I believe that putting everything online is not sustainable. It might be very difficult to believe for people who earn so much that they can afford 24/7 stable and fast internet anywhere they go, but there are places where even good old broadband dsl is unstable, in the west.

The reasoning of "appstore bad -> lets not use any appstores" is flawed. There are "appstores" like the ones on FOSS systems like linux (discover on Arch/Manjaro comes to mind), which show that you can make an appstore yourself.

All we need is to build a cross platform, community managed app store, which allows foss and non-foss apps, with a payment system. Thats the solution, not "make it a webapp".

Re: Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

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Post by kavalg »

bambax wrote: post #97

There are no solutions for suspensions from app stores. The solution is to not use app stores -- build better webapps, use the open web. We could be living in a world where no open web ever existed, where everything would be filtered through app stores and closed environments like Facebook (AOL). We need to preserve the open web, it is our most precious ressource.

Even though a webapp is much safer in that regards than appstore, you still don't have 100% control, because of things like safebrowsing etc.

Re: Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

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Post by anoncake »

bambax wrote: post #97

There are no solutions for suspensions from app stores. The solution is to not use app stores -- build better webapps, use the open web. We could be living in a world where no open web ever existed, where everything would be filtered through app stores and closed environments like Facebook (AOL). We need to preserve the open web, it is our most precious ressource.

> We could be living in a world where no open web ever existed, where everything would be filtered through app stores and closed environments like Facebook (AOL).

We could be living in a world where the App Store never existed, where everyone could install the software of their choice on the devices they own. Using the web instead of real apps is not the solution.

Re: Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

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Post by cityofdelusion »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #91
caslon wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've said it before, and I'll say it now: private companies can ban what they want! It's good for corporations to have ethics, even if I don't agree with said ethics, whether it's banning Gab or this. It's their constitutional right, and it's a responsibility that comes with having the power they do.

Big corporations having the rights of people isn't in the constitution.

Literally? No, but the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the constitution otherwise, at least over the last century. It would take a well-worded amendment to explicitly state that certain organizations of persons are different from persons in general.

Re: Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

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Post by dartharva »

Having the centralized app store as the only way to install apps by default was always a mistake, a blot on the elegant "hackability" of Android as a platform. I wish Google's hegemony wasn't so prevalent and common people were at least aware that they can sideload apps on their Android phones.

Re: Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

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Post by fakedang »

caslon wrote: post #75
fakedang wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact, duopolies are often regulated in other industries precisely because price matching is illegal.

Google nor Apple is guilty of that.

The 15% - 30% appstore developer cut says otherwise

Re: Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

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Post by kavalg »

perryizgr8 wrote: post #95

It's ok, google has the last word on what apps they allow on their platform. If this app wants, they can build their own mobile operating system, sell billions of phones all over the world, then sell their app on their os. Or they could also try what Epic games tried (and failed). They can build their own alternate play store and host their app on it. Google is not obligated to provide a platform to everyone and anyo…

In legal terms yes, but monopolies should be regulated for a good reason. How about your water supply company cutting you off, because they don't like that poster on your house?

Re: Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

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Post by perryizgr8 »

kavalg wrote: post #107
perryizgr8 wrote: post #95

It's ok, google has the last word on what apps they allow on their platform. If this app wants, they can build their own mobile operating system, sell billions of phones all over the world, then sell their app on their os. Or they could also try what Epic games tried (and failed). They can build their own alternate play store and host their app on it. Google is not obligated to provide a platform to everyone and anyo…

In legal terms yes, but monopolies should be regulated for a good reason. How about your water supply company cutting you off, because they don't like that poster on your house?

Google is hardly a monopoly in the mobile OS market. They have around 50% market in the US. How would you say that it is a monopoly?

Re: Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

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Post by npteljes »

LinuxBender wrote: post #2

Having never owned a smart phone I am curious if you need an app for this, or could you simply have an old school forum and people visit it on their phones browser? Is that even feasible? Too much friction?

Since a lot of platforms had an app version besides the website, people now expect it. Maybe app stores have a better reputation than the www does, with all the spam and phising that has been going on. So basically having an app is a way to reach people, and a signal that you keep up with the times.
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