Another platform? You mean Android? There's only one other platform and it's essentially identical to the App store. Even Microsoft gave up trying to compete. Stop trying to present this as some freedom to take your business elsewhere. There is no elsewhere. There's not even the ability to build an elsewhere. This is a total duopoly that is immune to competition.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We Want to Get Every App We Can on the Store, Not Keep Them Off'
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Another platform? You mean Android? There's only one other platform and it's essentially identical to the App store. Even Microsoft gave up trying to compete. Stop trying to present this as some freedom to take your business elsewhere. There is no elsewhere. There's not even the ability to build an elsewhere. This is a total duopoly that is immune to competition.
It's only a duopoly awaiting some disruption. There is no law prohibiting the development of another type of phone/smartphone or ecosystem to go along with it. Just needs some upstart to kick some, you know what.
The Apple Store and Google Play Store are operated like mafias with: ever changing rules, heavy 30% cut on all sales with no alternative allowed, considering developers as disposable fodder with the gatekeeper having god power for determining who lives and who dies, imposing artificial limitations preventing innovation (example: webkit only allowed browsing engine) and a tad of arrogance in general. It gets less and less tenable to have a long term reliable business on these platforms.
An angry developer.
An angry developer.
Yep, people seem to ignore this comment as I have stated it several times. If Apple is forced to "open things up", they better force it on Xbox and Playstation too. Otherwise this will seem like fighting with Apple just because its Apple.
Those are entirely different platforms. macOS and Windows are extensions of old software that did not have security and heavy sandboxing in mind. iOS does.
If you are expecting an answer from the CEO of Apple: tcook@apple.com. You won't have Mr. Cook answering here.
Unless you want Apple to stop releasing new macOS versions for a few years while they build a brand new one from scratch, its not going to happen. macOS does not have that level of sandboxing and security built in to it.
And like I said, they are two entirely different platforms. One has 100% multitasking, while the other has limited functionality for background apps.
You clearly don't understand that these are two different platforms do you? One is a phone, that typically only has access to one program open at a time. While the others can support multiple 6K monitors and can have hundreds of programs working at 100% multitasking capabilities.
And your same argument can also be applied to Windows you know. Or are you just attacking Apple because its Apple? The sheer amount of Apple bashing on this site always shocks me, while Microsoft, Sony and many others get a pass. Why doesn't Windows force user to install from their store? Oh right, they tried with Windows 10 S and it failed horribly.
You do realize that Apple has probably thought about everything people here are saying. You honestly think that some person on this site (myself included so no disrespect intended) are better than their employees? That only you would have thought about something but Apple's team of thousands did not?
Apple probably did a focus group and everyone hated that the macOS was locked down to just the App Store.
When an international mega corporation with tens of billions of dollars at its disposal, decades of experience and the ability to attract world class developers throws in the towel on trying to do just that, what hope does "some upstart" have?
None.
There are some situations that are impossible to overcome. No serious person, no venture capitalist on the planet will fund the literally billions it would require to even try to compete with Android/iOS. It's over. Without the ability to raise those billions, it cannot happen. The scale of such a project is unfathomably big.
There is no conceivable way to disrupt the duopoly without legal government enforcement. To claim otherwise is utterly naive about the realities of such a task.
Criticizing Apple in the form of an online "Dear Tim" letter is a meme at this point in time. Sometimes it's genuinely hard to ascertain if some of these posts understand the difference.
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And yet, this is not like trying wire many of the towns around here with another cable provider. Nobody is stopping some deep pockets from knocking out the champs.
I guess competition is a great thing (as keeps getting parroted around here), as long as there is some governmental interference to make it happen.
You need to compare Apples to Apples (pun intended). macOS needs to be compared with Windows. NOT iOS. Computers are not phones, and they operate entirely differently. Therefore, why should Apple lock down macOS that has a history of being open while Microsoft does not lock down Windows? The iPhone, since it began, has been locked down. Its baked into the operating system. macOS does not have this baked in and even up to now, it has remained open.
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Again, iOS is not a computer operating system. There are huge differences here.
Why is this an issue now then? Its not like iOS 13 suddenly made it locked down. Its been like this since day 1 since iPhone released the App Store. If you have not liked it in roughly 10 years, why are you still getting the phones?
hehe.. wait. now developers in the future will be forced to build universal apps... so same.
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ipad is not computer operating system because it doesn't have calculator..
computer means something can be calculated or compute so can be called as the operating system. It totally weird not to said android and iOS is not operating system.
Doesn’t matter what he is, he had a following, so for many humans he was a source of direction Or source of something (information however false, or novelty), and true freedom of speech Should protect all views not just palatable ones that fit within certain constrain.
hehe.. wait. now developers in the future will be forced to build universal apps... so same.
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ipad is not computer operating system because it doesn't have calculator..
computer means something can be calculated or compute so can be called as the operating system. It totally weird not to said android and iOS is not operating system.
There is a common distinction between computers and tablets and phones. If people really want to be critical then yes even ovens are computers. Cars are computers. I don't think that makes the conversation any different when stated that macOS is a computer operating system and iOS is a phone operating system.