Apple needs to be heavily taxed and regulated into operating their devices like general computers free of their authoritarianism
Why? You can buy an Android, or one of its derivatives, or a Huawei.
Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe
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#32That third party app stores are subject to review by apple is a problem in itself.
"It's absurd that apps are subject to review by Apple. I know what I'm doing. I've thoroughly inspected the source code of this app that I want to install." Not even the most brilliant hacker can say so. In other words: I don't agree. Users are dumb, and need to protected from harm. I don't want the Windows virus disaster all over again, especially because this time the stakes are considerably higher. You can disagre…
The security model on modern OSes is vastly different to the win95 days.
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#33The title alone makes me shiver. Apple "okays" what a government orders them to do. What!??
You and I look right through this power language, but this kind of wording makes people believe Apple is mightier than it is. It's disgusting from Reuters.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why can’t a business be built solely without giving Apple a dime? The web is free — as in freedom and as in gratis. It has a developer tools system funded by hundreds of companies, developers and community members. There’s hardly any order of dipping, if any. Why doesn’t the web compete away Apple’s “dips”?
Because Apple limits the viability of non-native apps on its mobile devices? Same reason it refused to allow Flash. It wants you to stay in the walled garden with the expensive fees.
Android has been the dominant mobile OS for over a decade. Additionally, desktop browsers have been a thing since forever.
Where is the multitude of amazing native-like web apps that we keep hearing about?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why can’t a business be built solely without giving Apple a dime? The web is free — as in freedom and as in gratis. It has a developer tools system funded by hundreds of companies, developers and community members. There’s hardly any order of dipping, if any. Why doesn’t the web compete away Apple’s “dips”?
The web is more than good enough. There's just a lot of people drinking the kool-aid and believing big tech's subtle and not so subtle messages about the web being shite. Of course the web is shite on devices from companies that compete with the web. They actively undermine it.
In my experience, the only people drinking kool-aid are those claiming that the web is good enough, and failing to deliver web apps that can do anything beyond the absolutely primitive stuff.
With very few notable exceptions which are notable precisely because they are so few.
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#36Whats the difference between mobsters owning a city , demanding money from all shops and Apple? There is none. Leadership at Apple is no different. Criminals who need be charged with jail penalties. Only then things will change. Will that ever happen? No. Governments are more or less controlled by lobbyists representing the same evil companies.
> Whats the difference between mobsters owning a city , demanding money from all shops and Apple?
Violence. Seriously?
Re: Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe
#37That third party app stores are subject to review by apple is a problem in itself.
"It's absurd that apps are subject to review by Apple. I know what I'm doing. I've thoroughly inspected the source code of this app that I want to install." Not even the most brilliant hacker can say so. In other words: I don't agree. Users are dumb, and need to protected from harm. I don't want the Windows virus disaster all over again, especially because this time the stakes are considerably higher. You can disagre…
> Users are dumb, and need to protected from harm.
And we know for a fact that Apple despite all their claims to the contrary cannot do that.
Re: Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe
#38The title alone makes me shiver. Apple "okays" what a government orders them to do. What!?? You and I look right through this power language, but this kind of wording makes people believe Apple is mightier than it is. It's disgusting from Reuters.
> title alone makes me shiver. Apple "okays" what a government orders them to do. What!??
If I’m fined by my city for a code violation, and then I sign off on a contractor to apply the remedies, I’m okaying work I’ve been ordered to do. Nothing in that framing challenges the city’s authority.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
That the only way to get applications on your phone is going through Apple, or a gatekeeper approved by apple, is a problem in itself too. That the first "app store" approved is built on predatory free to play gaming money is also a problem.
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It's a problem for those who already bought Apple and didn't know any better or didn't care. Also, not everyone likes the only available other alternative, which is Google, as while they allow sideloading, they're still a privacy nightmare ad-ware company.
The mobile space really needs a shake-up from the entrenched duopoly as currently the choice are a rock or a hard place.
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That the only way to get applications on your phone is going through Apple, or a gatekeeper approved by apple, is a problem in itself too. That the first "app store" approved is built on predatory free to play gaming money is also a problem.
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Fundamentally boils down to the question of whether or not your society is equipped with enough education to successfully make rational consumption choices.
Otherwise ultimately will cause a problem.