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>Rep. Johnson: Does Apple treat every app and every developer the same? >Cook: “We treat every developer the same. We have open rules. It’s a rigorous process. Because we care about privacy and quality, we do look at every app before it goes on. We apply these rules equally to everyone.”
What is the consequence of such a blatantly false testimony to Congress?
>Rep. Johnson: Does Apple treat every app and every developer the same? >Cook: “We treat every developer the same. We have open rules. It’s a rigorous process. Because we care about privacy and quality, we do look at every app before it goes on. We apply these rules equally to everyone.”
What is the consequence of such a blatantly false testimony to Congress?
Your question made me think of that quote. There are technical answers to you question (that lying under oath is a crime), but the realist answer is, that unless Congress/executive has the will to enforce consequences, very little.
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You don’t think the security/trust argument has any merit?
There is a definitely a benefit in terms of trust and security, though not fool proof. However, when you force companies to only signup and accept payment through your payment gateway instead of giving customers the option, and then unequally applying rules and colluding with other companies you start to get in trouble in regards to monopolistic practices.
For example, there's no TOS requirement preventing Amazon from having been selling Kindle books through its iOS Kindle app this whole time, and charging those sales through the user's Amazon payment processing as per usual. The only TOS requirement is that they would have just had to take 30% off the top of those sales for Apple. Amazon doesn't want to do this (and perhaps would have negative margins if they did), so instead they have decided to not have any kind of store view in the iOS Kindle app, and instead to just tell iOS Kindle users to go to the Amazon website to shop for Kindle books.
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What is the consequence of such a blatantly false testimony to Congress?
Lying to Congress is a crime (distinct from perjury), but it's unusual for anyone to be tried for/convicted of it though. Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, is a (rare) recent example.
Tech companies that reach monopoly scale (like Apple, Facebook, Amazon) should have to disclose all their agreements and honor a "Most Favored Nation" clause giving all companies the same pricing and access as the best negotiated agreement with any one company. This is the most reasonable way I can think of without breaking them up to prevent them picking winners and losers as new opportunities emerge. If you have a…
Sure, but why limit this to tech companies? Let's also apply this to banks, landlords, governments, grocery chains, and employers in general. Why should I not get the best wages, negotiated employment agreement, interest rates, lease terms, and deal with the IRS on taxes that I really don't want to pay as my most successful peer? Banks bend over backwards for their VIP customers, why shouldn't they do the same for me…
>Rep. Johnson: Does Apple treat every app and every developer the same? >Cook: “We treat every developer the same. We have open rules. It’s a rigorous process. Because we care about privacy and quality, we do look at every app before it goes on. We apply these rules equally to everyone.”
What is the consequence of such a blatantly false testimony to Congress?
Not that I think that anything would happen if it were in the IAP context.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don’t think the security/trust argument has any merit?
The device performs involuntary "CSAM" scans (where "CSAM" means whatever any given nation's intelligence apparatus doesn't like). If you don't believe it, just look to what they've done to their customers in non-US regions. Or that Mac phones home about what programs you run. App review is meant to enforce Apple's payment rules as much as anything. They don't and can't catch everything. Strong sandboxing, granular p…
It does not.
>Rep. Johnson: Does Apple treat every app and every developer the same? >Cook: “We treat every developer the same. We have open rules. It’s a rigorous process. Because we care about privacy and quality, we do look at every app before it goes on. We apply these rules equally to everyone.”
Tech companies that reach monopoly scale (like Apple, Facebook, Amazon) should have to disclose all their agreements and honor a "Most Favored Nation" clause giving all companies the same pricing and access as the best negotiated agreement with any one company. This is the most reasonable way I can think of without breaking them up to prevent them picking winners and losers as new opportunities emerge. If you have a…
Sure, but why limit this to tech companies? Let's also apply this to banks, landlords, governments, grocery chains, and employers in general. Why should I not get the best wages, negotiated employment agreement, interest rates, lease terms, and deal with the IRS on taxes that I really don't want to pay as my most successful peer? Banks bend over backwards for their VIP customers, why shouldn't they do the same for me…