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If you say this then you’ll surely also be fine to just not use other app stores if you don’t want them. Right? Just don’t use them!
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And, bro, “status quo” is literally a form of bias, not reasoning
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It won't end, Apple is too big now, the alternatives are: 1. Split Apple into smaller companies 2. Operate Apple like an utility company They did this to themselves, and it's only downhill from this point.
> Split Apple into smaller companies Curious, how would you split them up? A lot of their stuff is very intertwined, I guess Beats, Shazam are easy to split into their own, but the rest?
- The computing hardware company
- The accessory hardware company
- The operating system company
- The software company
- The cloud services company
- The app store company
- The music & video company
- The messaging company
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According to the article it was because Epic met with Apple and gave better assurances that they'd play ball rather than deliberately break their contract like they did last time. Regulators don't seem to have had anything to do with it. --- So what changed? Apple tells 9to5Mac that it has held further discussions with Epic. The result is that Apple has received proper commitment that Epic will play by the rules as l…
Regulators immediately started calling for an investigation and we're going to look into Apple’s termination of Epic’s developer account as a matter of priority.
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"for one" or "for once"?
I think they meant once. Besides digital lollipops what else is going so great in EU? jobs? economic growth? housing? immigration?
The EU is infinitely better than living in the states. At least for this third world immigrant.
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Microsoft and Google seem to be able to comply without publicly embarrassing themselves. Investors are not stupid, they understand that companies have to comply with the law. This behavior is totally on management. If I were a big investor I’d be more worried by this since it seems like management are acting irrationally without any plan.
Microsoft's compliance is largely to allow for Bing to be removed as their built-in search, and ability to uninstall Edge. They are also only allowing this within the EU market, not globally. Google just needs to allow for the selection of a default browser, provide links in Google search to competing sites (which Google will still make money off of with their ad delivery network anyway), opt-out option for sharing d…
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In the best case they are learning that, due to their own behaviour, they are now sharing custody of the EU app store with an adminstrative bureocracy. But I suspect it'll take them more time until it fully sinks and until they are done testing their new boundaries. Well done.
So happy to see the will of elected officials usurp a multinational. There is literally nothing to dislike about this.
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> A childish move, unexpected from such a company like apple especially with timing. Especially when you add the failed PWA move before, they're starting to look pretty bad.
Serious question, what PWAs are worth using on Android that don't work on iOS?
I’m so tired of this Apple tax, I think nobody would be this annoyed if Apple were saying 10% or something around that. 30% is more than most companies pay in tax on profits and this is a tax on revenue. I don’t think abusing your market position like some kind of protection racket should be allowed and if you don’t like it we’ll delete your App is quite frankly just as bad as the mafia smashing in shop windows. I do…
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