Apple Says Epic Games 'Wants Us to Be Android, But We Don't Want to Be'

[ksj1]

That's a poor analogy since you conveniently leave out that there's plenty of retailers to do business with. In the mobile market, there's only 2: Android & iOs.

I'm not sure this flies. Android is open source software, so there are many 'flavors' of Android supported by the vendors that forked the software. And each probably has their own app store along with the Play Store. My Samsung certainly did.

There are in fact many vendors to deal with. One is pretty successful compared to the rest, so the rest are going to try to pull it down.

 

[5232152]

This is the way the world is now. I can’t do anything if you want to hide your head in a hole and pretend otherwise.

I for one will not let Apple help turn the world into 1984. People are taking action through government involvement. Long live Margrethe Vestager.

 

[coredev]

I for one will not let Apple help turn the world into 1984.

How ironic.

 

[quarkysg]

I for one will not let Apple help turn the world into 1984. People are taking action through government involvement. Long live Margrethe Vestager.

You do realise that 1984 gave birth to Windows as you know it today right?

 

[duffman9000]

I think there's one thing where making something with complicated and new tech which acts as a barrier to 3rd party OS's and such is realistic.

INTENTIONALLY putting blocks in place for no technical reason other than business motivations? That's where I think many of us get our backs up against the wall.

it's one thing for there to be no "hacking" community because it's not worth it, no interest, or the technical skillset isn't publicly available. There's another thing to perform in an anti-consumer way by forced lockdowns.

For example: There's zero technical reason why I cannot roll back an IOS version on my iPad. That is an APPLE decision to force you to stay on a specific release, even if that release does not run well on the hardware. I SHOULD HAVE The full choice to roll back or install an alternative. it is MY physical phone. I bought it outright. And I OWN IT. not Apple.

You don’t own the operating system though. But that is a separate topic.

 

[Maximara]

I for one will not let Apple help turn the world into 1984. People are taking action through government involvement. Long live Margrethe Vestager.

It's not 1984 but rather a Brave New World