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Apple Blocks iTorrent App From EU Alternative App Marketplace [Updated]
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In fact, if I'm not mistaken, Apple does not allow browsers on Apple TV.
You literally made a claim that's unfounded. You did the exact thing you're accusing me of doing.
This is incredible. 🤣🤣🤣
Not going to continue this so have a great day.
Ok, so funding wars around the globe is ok, but general health insurance is not? Pumping billions and billions of $$$ for wars is fine, but American citizens not having health insurance is not? All I am saying here is there are much bigger issues than media corps getting forked.
I really don't know where you're going with this.
I live in a country with a relatively good public heath service. If America does not, then voters should have a hard look at their voting preferences and at the performance of their politicians.
If you don't pay people for their work, they are 1) less likely to be able to afford private health care, 2) they are earning less money, so are paying less tax to the state, so the state has less money to spend on subsidized health care.
And who are you saying is funding wars around the globe?
And why is funding wars around the globe connected to people not paying for the content they consume?
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That’s called the fallacy of relative privation. Basically saying something else terrible is happening in the world so this other thing isn’t important. The problem is that argument could be used to justify anything.
Did you really miss the obvious sarcasm in their post?
I mean they didn't add a "/s," but I thought it was very obviously making fun of people who post random made-up "99% vs 1%" statements to bolster their side of an argument.
It's not an easily dismissed "first world problem" when it's your own income that is impacted.
Oh so when I say "99%", I truly meant exactly 99%. But when they say it, don't take it literally 99%. That's incredible. 🤣
I'm not discussing this with you anymore. Have a great day.
Notice the update:
Something specific to the app, not torrenting apps in general. (Also something the developer almost certainly knew about before making this into a story).
Something specific to the app, not torrenting apps in general. (Also something the developer almost certainly knew about before making this into a story).
But a big LOL to those asking the EU to step in...
oh, they did.
I watch them. I watched them all. I will watch them all. And i wont pay. Go advocate them to someone else. Lol.
Yeah, I suspect they are deliberately setting their apps up to get blocked by Apple in order to drive home the narrative that Apple is still being a big bully.
Doesn’t exactly help their case. Cry wolf too many times and eventually, people will stop believing.
Then perhaps don’t put those creators in a position not to be able to afford bills.
So? Then do without instead of just stealing things you don’t want to pay for. Weird that you celebrate being a thief as if it’s some kind of accomplishment. It’s not.
Lots of people defending the developer here and bashing Apple.
I do find incongruent that everybody conglomerates for Apple to follow governmental laws (so far so good) but when some developer isn’t following said rules or is facilitating not following them or puts Apple itself in a gray area due to its product and/or behavior… then it’s all fine, Apple SHOULDN’T follow through.
Which one is it? Can’t have your cake and eat it too…
I do find incongruent that everybody conglomerates for Apple to follow governmental laws (so far so good) but when some developer isn’t following said rules or is facilitating not following them or puts Apple itself in a gray area due to its product and/or behavior… then it’s all fine, Apple SHOULDN’T follow through.
Which one is it? Can’t have your cake and eat it too…
So, if an iOS Torrent client is breaking “sanctions-related rules”, then all the Mac & PC torrent clients are also breaking such rules, right? Therefore, legitimate macOS (and Windows and Linux) torrent clients such as Transmission, which are currently notarized, are in risk of, not only stop being notarized but also allowed to run in the computer?
If so, we would be reaching a dystopian future where supra-national governments (in this case, the EU) with the collaboration of big corporations (Apple, Microsoft & Google) will be able to determine what we can install on our devices or not. What code we can run or not. I said dystopian future but in some regions with authoritarian governments this is already a reality …
Thief? Continue to normalize streaming platforms. If I watched a movie in theater, i already paid all the actors and crew. Making owners of netflix, disney etc. richer is not normal lol. You can continue to paying $500 each month to all of those platforms. We wont.
So you'll steal it. I guess when you go to upgrade your phone, you refuse to pay once they've given you the unopened box too.
And then you wonder why the retailer doesn't congratulate you for this.
Do you think you are entitled to free electricity to charge your phone because you already own a phone?
Are you OK with your employer deciding not to pay you after you've completed the work you expect to be paid for?
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Something digital cant be stolen because it does not exist in the first place. Again, continue to pay $500 monthly to those streaming platforms. Make their ceo’s, board members and white collars who does absolutely nothing, richer and richer. So they can post “how my one day is like at netflix??? <3<3” more frequently. Lol
And your claim about electricity is so low. Electricity is a physical thing. Its energy. Resources spent for creating it. It deserves payment. Movies make their money in theaters. Streaming platforms only benefits producers and ceo’s. Not actors or directors.
Just like all those paywalls on scientific article websites. They pay nothing to authors. If you would just mail them, they share it for free. You live in an imaginary world.
Exactly, I still remember when Disney+ was priced at 6,99€ per month, or 69€ per year. I was happily subscribed for more than a year, maybe almost two. Then, they began to rise the prices. I still maintained my subscription at 8,99€ but after a few months, I’m not sure if it was another price increase, the introduction of ads (on a service I’m already paying), or just me cutting costs (subscription fatigue is a thing, and developers should realize this), I decided to unsubscribe. Same for other services.
As I previously said, we don’t know where’s the ceiling price-wise of this services, but in the past they were affordable for most people, and more convenient than piracy. But if they keep rising prices at this rate, it will soon stop being appealing for the great public.
Check the DMA, it defines what Apple should do in this case. Has macOS or Linux or Windows been determined to be “gatekeepers”? Then, you shouldn’t expect what Apple is forced to do would be forced on non-gatekeepers.