iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more

Post by kmlx » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 1:33 AM UTC

addicted wrote: post #165

addicted wrote: post #164

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The Apple apologia anti regulation response to this comment is ironic because without anti monopoly protections Apple wouldn’t even exist right now. Microsoft bailed out Apple with an investment entirely because of anti monopoly regulations. More importantly, MS kept producing versions of Office and even Internet Explorer IIRC that allowed the Mac to remain an option because of their fear of being regulation. Then af…

Imagine if MS had done the shit Apple is doing and blocked iTunes from Windows because it didn’t “add enough new functionality”. And then when it eventually did allow a gimped version of iTunes charged Apple 30% of all the music and movies sold on it. If they were being Apple like they would probably have even started charging 20% of the album price of every music CD users ripped to their iPods using iTunes. And MS w…

Post by EMIRELADERO » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 7:30 AM UTC

kmlx wrote: post #171

addicted wrote: post #165

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Imagine if MS had done the shit Apple is doing and blocked iTunes from Windows because it didn’t “add enough new functionality”. And then when it eventually did allow a gimped version of iTunes charged Apple 30% of all the music and movies sold on it. If they were being Apple like they would probably have even started charging 20% of the album price of every music CD users ripped to their iPods using iTunes. And MS w…

what monopoly does apple have? not for smartphones: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartph... not for macs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu... not for operating systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste... not for web browsers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Post by throwaway1507 » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 7:51 AM UTC

rezonant wrote: post #168

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Why did you buy the device in the first place if it doesn't do what you want? And why do you think you are entitled to force its satisfied users to your ways? Just sell it, make a different choice and let us be happy with what we got.

This assumes there is one and only one reason to buy an iOS device, and it's because the platform is locked down. But that's not true is it? Is that the one and only reason you like iOS?

Post by tonyedgecombe » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 11:18 AM UTC

bhpm wrote: post #76

jchw wrote: post #63

I really think this is insanely poor strategy on Apple's part. They know damn well that they're simply delaying the inevitable, and probably in deluded hopes that this can get watered down significantly with enough effort, but I don't think the public or the government regulators are going to be amused by these stunts in the slightest. They manage to get away with a lot by virtue of having probably the best PR in the…

> For me, it's quite unusual seeing even the most popular comments on sites like MacRumors absolutely trashing and condemning Apple MacRumors comments section is always filled with people bashing Apple.

Post by realusername » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 12:23 PM UTC

shortsunblack wrote: post #176

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Do we? Which common app is exclusively distributed though a standalone install and used by millions? I can't think of a single example which would validate that.

Porn apps, gambling apps.