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Apple Announces Ability to Download iPhone Apps From Websites in EU
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Even if you don’t need all those features, you’re still using some features like the SDK which Apple spent money to create and update. Thats why developer accounts aren't free.
well then the customer goes like:"great, I love one store where Apple handles the transactions and I can ask for my money back easily"
Even if developers wrote Web Applications (which most companies do, see Adobe) they would work on the iPhone if Apple didn't limit them with WebKit. Those Applications work in Chrome for example.
all I need to do is point to one single instance of Apple rejecting a malicious software to prove that statement.
I’m against government being this involved honestly because this is not 100 percent fostering competition. In the case of search this is further giving google more power for example.
EU doesn’t think.Doesn't matter if the EU thinks it is
the larger political problem is that the US is pushing digital sovereignty and threatening to nuke apps it doesn't like off of apple and google's app stores. this presents a much lesser problem for android users but opens up the possibility that the US can force apple to delete apps it doesn't like off the app store for every country and not just the US.
if america didn't threaten to weaponize app stores as foreign policy tools laws like the DMA wouldn't need to exist.
if america didn't threaten to weaponize app stores as foreign policy tools laws like the DMA wouldn't need to exist.
1. you're the one arguing that asking the user if Adobe can access a folder would suddenly make that problem go away
2. Steve never said the exact words "you're holding it wrong" btw. False equivalency either way since I update CC in a standard way and have had many problems.
I never brought up web apps but you used it as an argument in this discussion.
you somehow brought up web apps as if they're the same as the context of this article: native apps, but then immediately went back on it. 🤦♂️
this is extraordinary. I'm moving on.
Sure free market at work. If the price is
High people won’t buy.
Maybe, but Apple has to comply or cop billions in fines. It is a language Apple understand well so all the governments that want Apple to kowtow will talk in that language.
I'm not miserable. I just want my iPhone to be even better!
Again, unless you think the App Store is pretty worthless, it seems very unlikely too many will abandon it.
Also, this added competition/choice can help push Apple to make the App Store even more appealing to developers and users. That would be great!
But they should be free and not have artificial limitations. It's not that I could not afford to pay the money. I just think that the basic features to build an app should be accessible to promote experimentation and learning.
Fortunately we still have high court and there is still chance at least some reason will prevail.
I don't think people who played Fortnite thought App Store was pretty worthless but here we are.
You didn't read the article did you. Shame on you spreading FUD.
Thankfully, it isn't up to you to tell people what they should or should not buy, or should or should not expect to get out of the hardware they buy.
And Apple still gets paid every time so I don’t see a problem with it.
Well, Apple has to pay the fine and comply first. It will take years before the decision comes. Even if the decision favors Apple, it will be useless by then.
