It would be great if all those who wants alternative app stores, choice of browser engines etc, would buy Android phones.
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Alternative iOS App Stores Only Work for 'Grace Period' When Traveling Outside of EU
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It would be great if all those who wants alternative app stores, choice of browser engines etc, would buy Android phones.
You can't say that with absolute certainty. For one, the App Store is a centralized place for subscriptions, so while *I* personally wouldn't really care if I had to input my card details (as opposed to jusst scanning my face), someone else who is maybe less experience with tecnology would. Second, again, users prefer a frictionless experience. While I'm not aware of any scientific studies about it, it's been shown that even one more screen would dramatically increase the fallthrough rate in a purchase flow.
Just move somewhere else. Now you're guaranteed to be left out of third-party stores in less than 2 months!
No, but I wish I could.
I have to applications outside the Mac App Store, Microsoft Edge and a LDAP browser.
I suppose that's possible but it would be a bizarre way to create legislation. "We don't care if Spotify was wildly successful with getting their iOS subscribers to pay via the internet. Lack of in-app communications that had absolutely no impact on Spotify's wild success must be the focus of our legislation".
Yeah, your iPhone will let Apple know where you really are even if you’re using a VPN.
I'm glad that you can see your original argument has no merit.
Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't have merit.
I proved it doesn't have merit.
ME: Spotify's premium subscription growth curve wasn't impacted by lack of in-app communication.
YOU: You're not recognizing that Spotify could have lost customers who didn't like the hassle of the internet.
ME: The hassle of the internet is the same regardless of whether there is in-app communication about it.
YOU: You can't say that with absolute certainty.
ME: Neither can you.
End result of that exchange is that the original comment about Spotify's subscription growth not being impacted by lack of in-app communication is correct.
That’s the point. You are attempting to create some fictional universe of disgruntled apple users who paid for apple
Music because they didn’t they could get Spotify for free.
Except you argued:
It's entirely possible that they didn't know that and just went with AM because it was easier. Could I have replied to the correct post? Sure. But it doesn't invalidate my argument.
"I'm not included in your category of users, therefore it doesn't exist." That's not how it works.
How it works is not how you think it works. Please don’t claim the mythical one person that actually claimed they did this and then say SEE…..
It doesn't matter which post you replied to. You can't claim someone doesn't want to pay via the internet and then also claim Spotify could have signed that person up because the app told them to pay via the internet.
Way to take one example as my entire argument. I said:
Spotify could've most likely signed such a person up if the app had even notified them of the possibility to sign up online. Then I added:
Which an in-app link to the online "Subscribe" page could reasonably accomplish, while having to go to Spotify's home page, find the "subscribe" option, and then subscribing probably less so.
I have.
So I can buy an app from the store and if Apple feels I have been outside of eu for too long they take it away?
I mean as in I cannot update it any longer? What the heck?
I mean as in I cannot update it any longer? What the heck?
It's happening on your iPhone. Apple doesn't need to know where you are.
Yep. Apple basically says, "We've decided to unilaterally take away your rights as a European citizen"
That's what so many of us has been saying. Just buy an Android to get what you want.
But no, some of you insist on having iPhones.
What? Someone can’t have an interest in a company without owning that company’s products? People can’t comment on things that happen in the world without experiencing them? People can’t denounce racist behavior unless they are the object of that behavior?
Why can’t this other poster come share his opinion here? Maybe his thoughts will help someone else or help others see new perspectives on Apple-related issues.