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app store monopoly did you read the article?
Wasn’t Apple forced to open up their App Store monopoly?
For example them demanding that app developers have to pay APPLE if they are distributing their apps through a different App store is the exact opposite of the intention of the EU regulations, and plain evil.
> I’m going to get a lot of emails from confused users wondering why their app is broken, now opening in a regular browser window. Newsflash incoming for you.. Just about none of your users will (1) care (2) used the "PWA" in the first place. It's really not that common to add apps to the home screen. Among very technical users, it's a fair bit more common though.
From the article: There is no native app for The Session, but you can install it on your phone nonetheless. Lots of people have done that. After a while they forget that they didn’t install it from an app store: it behaves just like any other app on their homescreen. Maybe you don't believe this but it was addressed.
Apart from opening in a browser window rather than as a full-screen app, is this going to behave significantly differently from before?
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This is actually a big problem on Android. My ex father-in-law literally had his bank account ripped off (£18000) from rogue app installed from outside the app store. And Google's stewardship of the play store is terrible. Note I'm mostly an Android user.
That story sounds rather fishy. So your father has found the hidden option to enable developer mode which allows APKs to be sideloaded, and then went to some website to download and install an APK? By the way: According to Kasparsky [1] last year there have been 600 Million downloads of malware that was installed from Google play store, without any sideloading or alternative App stores involved. And of course the App…
I will add that I have a lot of unsigned APKs on my device as well, but not from those sources!
> Instead of graciously acknowledging that this is what’s best for users, Apple are throwing a tantrum. I’m a user and a developer and I’m convinced this is not what’s best for users.
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Apple always assume that you use their devices as primaries. It can be very annoying. When I wanted to get my wife a replacement MB, I ended up checking out as a guest as they insisted on sending my 2FA code to my iPad (which mostly just annoyed my toddler).
> Apple always assume that you use their devices as primaries Assumes or tries very hard to make the alternative as difficult as possible? From a company that prides itself in improving and simplifying UX the dark patterns aren't mistakes.
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Apple always assume that you use their devices as primaries. It can be very annoying. When I wanted to get my wife a replacement MB, I ended up checking out as a guest as they insisted on sending my 2FA code to my iPad (which mostly just annoyed my toddler).
No. The user base for Apple Music on Windows is huge. Apple devices are secondary. Using the AM app is primary, once you've been successfully sucked into the Apple ecosystem, Borg-like.
Perhaps I'm incorrect but what I said did happen to me.
Perhaps we have reached peak Apple. I was a fanboy for a long time but when USB-C came to the iPhone something clicked for me. There was no good reason except money making why they didn't do it sooner. Perhaps the magic spell is broken. Yes, their computers may be good, but maybe the company that makes them, isn't.
One day she was like "ugh! I forgot my phone charger at home" and I was like "your phone uses USB-C now. I have dozens of those lying around."
She kind of tilted her head and said "huh. that's convenient." Like, she'd simply never thought about it that way before.
Sure this situation already exists on Mac OS but that is a much smaller user base and there are plenty of alternatives where you can go and install arbitrary software. I deal with weird stuff my parents have installed on their Macs every time I visit… so far I haven’t had to do that with their phones. If I wanted them to use a Firefox browser engine on their phone I’d get them an Android.