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Apple Privacy Chief: North Dakota Bill 'Threatens to Destroy the iPhone as You Know It'
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You mean like how Epic first tried to get users to sideload Fortnite by withholding it from the play store?
Yeah, I am sure that has zero impact on the users who wanted to download it.
Meanwhile, iOS users were happily downloading and playing the game from day one because Epic couldn’t even try such a stunt to begin with.
It has happened before, and it will happen again. These companies are not my friends, and I would sooner trust Apple to keep them honest than I would Epic.
Actually to be fair it does. I think we all have a general trust that Apps delivered via the official store are safe to install. In the case of Android, Mac, or Windows it has been trust but verify. And if you've actually been hit cryptolockers, viruses, malware, etc. you probably have a much different opinion.
And I know from a corporate IT standpoint that would be completely unacceptable. Any work-provided phone out there would be prevented from using anything but the official App Store. you'd be crazy not to.
it does not automatically compromise your devise. But it can, and will affect many people. And to say that if you are worried then don’t download apps from others sources is not a good argument. Because if you interact and communicate, and share files and information with anyone else, you are at risk. Think about it... if just one person gets malware, and had 1000 people in their contacts app... every single one of those people has their info compromised, regardless of how careful they are.
It’s ironic that you criticized others for commenting without understanding, yet you don’t seem to fully grasp the potential problems.
The familiar phrase of totalitarians throughout time, your freedom of choice affects others therefore you can have no freedom
One massive problem though: developers will flee Apples app store because it's "cheaper" and pretty soon, my regular iphone is useless because I have no apps to choose from.
Meanwhile, all these developers are creating the worlds biggest unregulated street market of app stores and anarchy ensues. The big players quickly create their own app stores that host only their apps. Epic comes along with their app store and developers-- sick of all the nonsense on the open market-- move to the Epic store. Ten years from now, politicians are calling for the breakup of the Epic store because it's a monopoly on Epic stores.
I'm not really trying to be funny here because all of this could happen, and probably will. The only thing I even remotely support is the ability to run other operating systems, like Android.
I understand its lucrative... Any company offering a digital program on recent hardware has their own store. See TV and game developers. I also understand jailbreaks are out there to circumvent these barriers where consumers do as they please - but these can get abused, giving developers\creators no compensation for their work.
I'd presume Apple's move to lower their cut to 15% on the first million is a good middle ground. I'd figure that's likely one of the lower percentages of any digital store(?)
I'd presume Apple's move to lower their cut to 15% on the first million is a good middle ground. I'd figure that's likely one of the lower percentages of any digital store(?)
Do you want to have “Windows like numbers” of security risks on your iPhone? Like to do security scans with your trust anti-malware program? Hey, remember to keep those virus definitions fresh and that power bank ready, because if you screw up your “ApplePay cards will be skimmed” or you’ll be out of power since that antivirus background process is eating your battery life like crazy
I use windows, many people using windows get viruses because they are irresposible, I never do because I keep my system up dated, if you choose to be lax that is your problem not mine
Is it? How do you break it down to being a 'good deal'?
Serious question though, how can it be shown that 30% is not 20% too much and Apple is still making a serious profit from it. The issue right or wrong is that when there is only one option, App Store, Play Store, Windows Store or whatever on each platform, scrutiny follows as to how much money is too much for big companies.
I honestly don't know the answer, neither do I really care too much. When I need it the App Store is fine.
Although there is a lot of complaining about the 30%, I wonder if they reduced it all the way down to 5%, would the developers pass that saving to me? Probably not, so I agree purely on a 'my opinion' basis that 70% of the sale for not having to handle all the downloads, payments, refunds, fraud and so on, seems fair. That is a lot of work developers don't need to worry about.
Does this include kindle, such a ripoff I can't get any books from other vendors. How about my car, shouldn't I be able to get upgrades on my car electronics instead of just using carmakers firmware. My thermostats, can I get other software to run on them? I hate the software on my Samsung TV, I call it a not-so-smart TV, can I get apps from other app stores? My microwave, I want to take pictures with other apps (a shoutout to twittyAnne Conway, if anyone forgot)
Oh and best of all, can I sell stuff on amazon, but pay through another vendor and bypass the egregious Amazon fees? WhooHoo!
Oh and best of all, can I sell stuff on amazon, but pay through another vendor and bypass the egregious Amazon fees? WhooHoo!
Thats a hogwash argument. Of course you still have freedom. You could freely choose a different phone/os. One that has the app choices you want. You can already buy other phones that are virtually identical in every way, with a different but similar operating system. If you are so hell bent on an unwalled garden... guess what, you can already get that today.
I think the article should have mentioned that the proposed law only applies to "proprietor of a digital application distribution platform for which cumulative gross receipts from sales on the digital application distribution platform to residents of [North Dakota] exceed ten million dollars in the previous or current calendar year"
There's a few posts on here which suggests Apple's only option is to allow a third party App Store or prevent ND residents from using the App Store at all. A third option is to cut rates to 0% (or cap their gross revenue at $10m) so ND residents can still access the App Store and Apple can still maintain privacy, security, and all the other benefits they provide with a closed environment.
If I were a ND resident, I'd argue that the law should look at gross profit, not gross revenue, so that Apple can still recoup the costs related to operating the App Store.
There's a few posts on here which suggests Apple's only option is to allow a third party App Store or prevent ND residents from using the App Store at all. A third option is to cut rates to 0% (or cap their gross revenue at $10m) so ND residents can still access the App Store and Apple can still maintain privacy, security, and all the other benefits they provide with a closed environment.
If I were a ND resident, I'd argue that the law should look at gross profit, not gross revenue, so that Apple can still recoup the costs related to operating the App Store.
whatever happened toilet the market decide? Apple lowered its fees for small developers, I haven't even heard of Amazon or Google rushing to match and/or beat the prices yet.
I had not thought about this as revenge for those but that actually makes sense. Once Apple went political some people were going to punch back.
I still don’t like it at all. I love the walled garden.
And you can still get that with this law, by the way many people share files with others using android and managed to survive just fine, you just want Apple approved apps ok, do what you want
No, you don't own it. You have the right to throw it in a river if you like, but you don't have the right to monkey with iOS, which is wholly owned by Apple. If you want to scrub it and put a different OS on it, you can do that too but iOS does not belong to you, just like all software ever.
Actually, it is your problem too: unless you happen to never share information, or files, or photos, or anything with anyone. If they become compromised, so do you.
I 100% support this legislation and in the continued spirit of ‘anti big tech’ I’d like to also see an iron clad law stating that humans own their own data in perpetuity throughout all formats and cannot be compelled to sign away that ownership in exchange for services or ‘protection’. We need to take back granular control of our internet footprint.
California and some aggressive states do this all the time. And I agree it’s trash. The commerce cause should have given congress the power to overrule laws that impede trade between and even within states. But it would be tricky to do and likely end up with Congress running everything. I doubt many states want that.