You have a very limited view on security.
The biggest security issue when you allow a lot of sources for software is the user. Sandboxing can't always protect the user from doing stupid things. That's the main security problem.
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Alternative iOS App Stores Only Work for 'Grace Period' When Traveling Outside of EU
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You have a very limited view on security.
The biggest security issue when you allow a lot of sources for software is the user. Sandboxing can't always protect the user from doing stupid things. That's the main security problem.
Okay...you've got conjecture as your argument and I've got Spotify's actual growth curve for premium subscriptions.
It's not conjecture. It's actual behavioral analysis shared by the majority of user experience experts.
I hope that it works out and works better for the users than it does on Android. Outside of maybe games it is hard to imagine many apps choosing to not be on the Apple Store regardless of whether they are also in some other store. I am in the US and so it is mostly irrelevant for me, but based on my experience with third party stores on Android in the past I personally would be in no rush to want another App market on my phone unless it had exclusive rights to sell stuff that I could not get from the Apple Store. When I used Samsung phones I would have removed the Samsung store and only used Play if my phone would have allowed it.
In the US I really hope we get the third party browser engine support like the EU is getting. Third party stores to me are more of a negative than a benefit though and so I am not envious of that. Even if an app was cheaper in a third party store I would personally choose the convenience and seamless experience of the first party store.
In the US I really hope we get the third party browser engine support like the EU is getting. Third party stores to me are more of a negative than a benefit though and so I am not envious of that. Even if an app was cheaper in a third party store I would personally choose the convenience and seamless experience of the first party store.
Why? Anti trust legislation targets behavior. Harm isn’t needed to be proven, be the action is by definition defined as harmful irrespectively.
This legislation exists decades before Spotify was even considered as an idea, and close to half a century In the rome charters. Ani trust is enshrined in EUs constitution.
EU and USA have widely different views and standards for anti trust legislation and the intention of them.
I think you should use the hardware and software you're discussing on a site like MacRumors.
These people are also angry at Apple. For their own mental health, they should stay away.
I think people should not try to decide who gets to comment or discuss what topics.
Most of us here have some type of Apple product currently or have in the past, or might in the future
It's conjecture in terms of premium subscription sales lost. Spotify even specifically said in 2016 that the launch of Apple Music had increased their growth. 2016 was also the year they decided to end their two year experiment with IAP.
The difference is that on a Mac, you install just a few number of software applications, mostly from the usual suspects like Adobe, Microsoft etc.
On smartphones people install hundreds of apps during a few years of usage. I'm not a big app user and I don't play games, but I still have 84 apps on my iPhone.
What if I had to download hundreds of apps from 100 websites if true side loading was accepted?
Regular users would be fooled, just like they are on the Mac or on Windows.
I don't care what reasons Apple have, I just support Apple because I want the same as them but for different reasons.
I think your memory is a bit selective. Microsoft did not own the hw, they did not manufacture anything else but their pretty good ps2 mouse back then, yet they used their influence to prohibit bundling non-Microsoft-supplied software (such as netscape navigator) with PCs sold by independent third parties. I fail to realise any kind of correlation between the two cases.
All I'm saying is that there is no way to know how much more or less Spotify would've grown, if at all, if Apple hadn't enacted their anti-steering practices. That doesn't sound so trascendental or radical to me.
Yes, but you probably go back to Germany during a 60-90 day period.
iOS has soon existed for 17 years. This is very well known by almost all users who buy iPhones.
I mean the younger generations don't even know how a file system works.
Stop using logic and common sense.
This happens already. Just try moving countries and see what happens to your music and apps if you change the nationality of the Apple Store you use....
Sandboxing don't protect against a user doing stupid things.
Security is more than just protecting something technically.
It's not problem for me as a user. It's only a problem for developers which I don't care about.
One great thing about iOS is you can use Apple as a shield against the developer, protecting you from the developer. ¨
It's a PITA already, I know. Fortunately I never had the need to change the region of my account.
But as long as you don't change the region in account settings, there is little ground for Apple to change the terms and consequently disable alt-app-store access, just because your phone is outside of the EU.
Apple is known to deliver crap user experience in order to protect their products. Look at them still using SMS/MMS instead of adopting RCS. It's a crap experience for their own users, all in the name of greed.
More entry points decreases security, especially if almost everyone can make an entry point.