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Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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Re: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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These days it seems Apple is begging to be regulated. So much stuff where they either let through scams or boot off legitimate apps on a whim. If anyone followed the news in the EU, Vestager is openly discussing to do so. They should rather make a halfhearted step themselves to open up their platform or they will be forced to do a full step themselves. That's my prediction, as states start to realize the abusive prac…

Everything you said about Apple seems more apt about Amazon.

Re: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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Its so bewildering to me that Amazon doesn't do this. People are catching on to the low quality of the reviews on amazon and once that credibility is gone, its never coming back. Their supply chain is a pretty strong moat but its not insurmountable.

People have been saying this for a number of years, now, and Amazon only grows faster. Tools like this may have actually contributed to that growth, since they make shopping on Amazon safer, ironically.

Amazon has the same advantage that Microsoft had in the 90s: everybody else is even less competent.

Re: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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These days it seems Apple is begging to be regulated. So much stuff where they either let through scams or boot off legitimate apps on a whim. If anyone followed the news in the EU, Vestager is openly discussing to do so. They should rather make a halfhearted step themselves to open up their platform or they will be forced to do a full step themselves. That's my prediction, as states start to realize the abusive prac…

I feel notably unfree on an Apple product, which amazes me because my reference is Google products. The thing which struck me was when I tried to watch a film I've had on my PC hard drive for what must be 5 years now, but Apple won't let VLC ship the codec.

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Re: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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"unauthorized": reddit has an official API for third-party clients.

So does Amazon's HTTP API for browser clients. Is Apple going to snuggle up with Amazon and get the Brave browser banned for nuking their ads, trackers, etc?

What do you think? There's no love lost from either company toward Brave. (Which makes me love Brave more!)

Re: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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Another small slice of personal agency is lost. Still enjoying those walled gardens keeping you "safe?"

Stop calling it a "walled garden". It's a "walled prison".

It’s not a prison because you’re welcome to leave whenever you want.

Re: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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People have been saying this for a number of years, now, and Amazon only grows faster. Tools like this may have actually contributed to that growth, since they make shopping on Amazon safer, ironically.

Amazon has the same advantage that Microsoft had in the 90s: everybody else is even less competent.

I don’t agree. The advantage both had/have is a level of scale and brand inertia which makes it financially near-impossible for alternatives to grow large enough to compete.
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