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Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers

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Re: Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers

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Post by CRConrad »

TchoBeer wrote: post #500
CRConrad wrote: post #476

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So only install apps from the Apple App Store then. How do other app stores where developers aren't forced to play by those Apple rules affect you then?

Because then I can't install any of the apps that are no longer on the app store.

But these evil dangerous apps wouldn't have been allowed by Apple in the first place, so they'd never have been on their app store to begin with.

Or, IOW: You can't do that after Apple bans them from their store either. Apps getting banned from there so you can't download them is a thing that actually exists in the here and now.

Re: Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers

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Post by 6510 »

I hear praise of current standards which just makes me laugh. The standards are pathetic. Just look at any other industry. There are always detailed rules and you will be told when you break them with great accuracy. The inquisition had higher standards than these.

I honest to god can't develop software or run any business if I cant rule out faceless executive punishment without clarification. I cant even take web development all that seriously with googles dictatorship.

I believe this to the the right analogy:

Imagine building a brick and mortar store before asking for permission to open it. You get the permission but move some shelves around and buy a new carpet. You get a letter from Acme Corporation: We don't like something! Your business is hereby terminated. You naively reply and ask why? Is it the shelves? Then they visit you, wack you over the head with an AK47 and burn the place to the ground.

Outside there are people cheering the purification.

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