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It's never been about quality. It's about control.
Let me just give you a hint: you don't even get the faintest chance to have one-millionth of Apple's level of potential "control" without creating many many years of quality, first. I'm surprised you don't see that.
I'm just going to say one simple thing: very few people are qualified to assess what Apple actually "seems to care" about. And this poster definitely isn't one of those people. As for the invented-from-whole-cloth link title: please don't do that.
Yeah, but if it came to Google, Facebook, or Amazon, you'd be all over them with a pitchfork. Users of HN really have some rose coloured blinders on when it comes to Apple.
The assertion in that title is patently false click-bait. Apple definitely cares about its customers being driven away from them. That doesn't mean they've caught all scams, or more importantly in this case have managed to automate detection of them all, definitely not as fast as folks online identify them. Also note that there are entire classes of scams that never get click baity titles because Apple DOES detect th…
> Also note that there are entire classes of scams that never get click baity titles because Apple DOES detect them and shut them down before they're widespread. That's beside the point. According to the thread, Apple detected this one. So why didn't they shut it down? The thread speculates that it's because Apple is making significant revenue from it and, frankly, that sounds like a logical conclusion - at least unt…
Remember, the App Store offers you the most secure, curated, and safe experience you can ever have with your Apple devices. Each app submitted to the App Store undergoes a thorough review process. Each app update is checked and approved by an Apple employee. It's not like some automated process which you can game left and right. Each app on the App Store is guaranteed, thanks to the strict review process, to adhere t…
Thats just not true though -- it does go through a review but the quality of that review is not remotely consistent.
I've litterally had reviewers 'reject' an app because they couldn't log in and said I didn't provide the right details.
Basically they copied the email or password incorrectly. Note they didn't copy and paste -- just wrote it wrong and then rejected the app with out double checking.
Apple and Google are poor stewards of the mobile app distribution market. It's time that their 13+ year stranglehold on app distribution is disrupted.
You know, I was thinking last night about the parallels between this and the anti-trust investigation into Microsoft back in the 90s. Back then Microsoft was in a heap of trouble over the fact that they bundled IE and didn't allow vendors to bundle other alternative browsers. Users could still install other browsers, but the fact that the OS came bundled with IE was seen as an abuse of Microsoft's market position. Ye…
Remember, the App Store offers you the most secure, curated, and safe experience you can ever have with your Apple devices. Each app submitted to the App Store undergoes a thorough review process. Each app update is checked and approved by an Apple employee. It's not like some automated process which you can game left and right. Each app on the App Store is guaranteed, thanks to the strict review process, to adhere t…
>Each app submitted to the App Store undergoes a thorough review process. Thats just not true though -- it does go through a review but the quality of that review is not remotely consistent. I've litterally had reviewers 'reject' an app because they couldn't log in and said I didn't provide the right details. Basically they copied the email or password incorrectly. Note they didn't copy and paste -- just wrote it wro…
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To be honest, I always thought the IE issue was stupid, and surely from a modern perspective it even more bonkers. Google has an OS that is literally a browser engine, they're not the only one, and web technologies are commonly built into OSes nowadays at a low level. The other anti-trust claims against MS were I think largely credible and reasonable, but that one really has not aged well.
> Google has an OS that is literally a browser engine It's not though. Chrome OS is literally Linux. You can install Firefox.
Do all chromebooks support linux apps now? AFAIK that's not true, and only a subset of them support it.
I'm just going to say one simple thing: very few people are qualified to assess what Apple actually "seems to care" about. And this poster definitely isn't one of those people. As for the invented-from-whole-cloth link title: please don't do that.
Yeah, but if it came to Google, Facebook, or Amazon, you'd be all over them with a pitchfork. Users of HN really have some rose coloured blinders on when it comes to Apple.
This post to me sounds like someone claiming spam filters are worthless because an email got across. The relevant metric is how many scams aren’t there, not how many have managed to stay for some indeterminate amount of time.
That the developer of FlickType (the OP of this Twitter thread) had to file a lawsuit says a lot about how much Apple isn’t paying attention. I seriously wonder what the person at the top level managing the App Store is doing, other than lobbying to prevent any possibility of alternate payment options or allowing side loading of apps.
So it's not just a scam, it's a scam pretending to be a medical app? The walled garden method has been proven a failure and needs to go urgently.
I'm not defending Apple, and I dislike the walled garden model too, but you can't just blindly claim that this is a failure and a non-walled method would do a better job without any evidence.
Do GNU/Linux repositories count? F-Droid?