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I'd bet $20 that Google (and probably Amazon) has started or will start working on an App Store for iOS. If either of them use their dark patterns to get people to install their app stores then this could be a different situation than what's happening on Android, where very few users actually side load apps. With the weight of one of these giants they could really get massive adoption on iOS in an alternative store.
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> If there was a load of cool software that Apple was preventing from coming into existence, Android would be the dominant platform by now, because it would have all the cool stuff. A mobile application that can't be shipped on iOS has a much lower total addressable market, which potentially makes it so that it isn't a commercially-viable undertaking for the developer. When I was working in the mobile space, I saw mo…
Perhaps you can name one such great idea.
At the very least, people should be allowed to install browsers that aren't Safari.
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Pretty much all Apple has to do to keep apps in App Store in the face of competition is drop their fees to less than 10% for all apps and drop bullshit like "you can't even link to your website if it lets users pay from there", and almost everyone except the most brazen will stay on App Store. We'll see what actually happens but I personally I doubt that Apple values user experience more than it values gouging develo…
> all Apple has to do is give a >60% discount to their current prices.
They wouldn't be subject to legislators' interest in the first place if they charged reasonable fees.
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Settings -> Privacy -> Personalized Ads - disable As far as FB cross app tracking, there is another article on HN where FB attributed $10B worth of revenue loss to Apple’s new opt in tracking prompt. It’s not about obstructing, a “native ad” looks just like any other post and is integrated into the feed. It would take some serious AI to block that.
I'm not saying Apple does not take any steps towards fighting this, I'm just saying they are currently very far to the level of privacy of a browser. > It’s not about obstructing, a “native ad” looks just like any other post and is integrated into the feed. They have to disclose sponsor posts by law (at least in the EU). Right now they are using tricks of random divs to hide that to adblockers. When the browsers will…
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> What's being removed from you again? Don't sideload apps if you don't like sideloading. Keep using Apple's app store if you like it, or maybe in the future, you will find you like an app store better than Apple's. We will never find out if someone does it better than Apple, if nobody can even try. Um, the fact I've told any semi-non-competent person to buy iPhone because it very specifically won't screw up like the…
And if Apple can't keep the quality of their software from falling to that level, just because of being slightly more open, then that is their failure.
As long as this does not cause an exodus from the App Store and I am forced to start paying for apps directly, I am fine with this. But a strong benefit to the App Store for me is being able to manage and cancel my subscriptions from a central place. No going through 5 screens, no being forced to call, no any of that crap. I can already see apps refusing to carry through the App Store so they can control more, and I…
Just curious, would you pay 40% more for the convenience of being able to cancel in one place?
If services universally had an obvious cancel button that did exactly what it says it does without a runaround, then yeah the premium makes zero sense.
Good. At the very least, people should be allowed to install browsers that aren't Safari.