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Honest question, what do people think is a fair percentage? The platform development, app hosting, payment processing, and quality control is surely worth something .
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apparently people will make this same comment every single time whether it's a $2M fine or a $2B fine
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Sideloading, AKA "installing software on your device", is something PCs have been handling just fine for decades. It's fine to warn the user when they're going off the beaten trail, but do not lock them in a cage to prevent them from doing so. If they ignore the warnings and get scammed because they are unable to identify reputable software from disreputable software, they learn a life lesson. Life goes on. There sho…
There are entire classes of people who have simply given up on PCs and only use a phone, so I would call that substantial evidence that PCs have NOT "been handling [it] just fine." For these folks, PCs are a total failure; a dead end. A danger zone to be avoided at all costs.
Honest question, what do people think is a fair percentage? The platform development, app hosting, payment processing, and quality control is surely worth something .
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Being on the side of the consumer means being on the side of the free market. If you don’t like the charging options of an iPhone, don’t buy an iPhone. If you don’t like the OS of a Pixel, don’t buy a Pixel. If the consumer is choosy and doesn’t like the options available then there is a market opportunity for new entrants.
> Being on the side of the consumer means being on the side of the free market. An unregulated market leads to monopoly and anti-competitive practices. Capitalism is one of the best models we've discovered, but its markets must be appropriately regulated. Capitalism should be difficult. An eternal treadmill. You shouldn't be able to wedge yourself into a market as a quarter-century long hegemon. You shouldn't be able…
And how to I get support for the products I just bought when your government regulators terminate the existing of the product developer / manufacturer.
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WebView wrappers don't have any more ability to siphon data out of the phone than any other app. Scammers can always scam users if they can trick them into entering data into a website. There's nothing anyone can do about that (besides blocking web access).
The point is Apple isn't really helping with the problem because the weakest link is people. If you can get someone to install malicious software how much more difficult is it to have them willingly give it via phishing?
I have vivid memories of loads of relatives in the Windows XP era with browsers laden with toolbars that spy on everything they do and slow the computer to a crawl. Those users see something like the iPhone as a massive breath of fresh air. Nothing you install on the App Store can inject adware into the rest of the operating system like that.
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As soon as you open the door to side-loading, you'll have scammers and data-siphoners force all their users to side-load so that they can completely bypass Apple's privacy controls and security features. The entire iOS ecosystem is built on the App Store review process as a gatekeeper for entitlements and the capabilities they grant (through API access). How do you solve that problem for side-loaded apps?
My precise location data and credit card transactions are freely available on the market. Just by companies listed on the stock market who got that data "legally" in our current walled and "safe" garden. I appreciate a lockdown for kids and elders, but let's not pretend our data is locked safely away in this walled garden.
It would be a total disaster!
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TLDR: they made it up.
What else would you expect? It’s from a tribunal. They make judgements.
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What else would you expect? It’s from a tribunal. They make judgements.
Judgment can be grounded in reality or it can be picking a random subrange of a list of somewhat random ranges and then picking a midpoint because why not.