The difference is that phones have cameras, location tracker, and all these other sensors, contacts list, and other usage data that apps can request access to. PCs didn't have these. A sideloaded app can easily trick your mom and grandma to giving them access to these extremely private data.
Exactly this! Using a computer or an Xbox is a little different IMHO. Your phone is the most important computer/device that you rely on when you are mobile. You need it for so many other things than just a regular computer.
Imagine being out and stranded somewhere? Imagine all the information a nefarious crook can steal or use to immobilize you with. Being the phone is so important in everyday life (using at work, using for directions, using for sending money or accepting it) and can hold so much more of your personal/important data, I want it to be protected a lot more than my computer or Xbox at Home.
Some places need a better ‘walled garden’ than others. I have felt zero loss as a customer with the way it is setup now. I haven’t missed anything the way it is setup now. I’m sure Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft have to pay in all the stores that they rent space to have their products displayed. I’m sure they don’t get that retail space for free at Walmart or Target. It is no different than paying 30% fees to use the App Store to promote your product and to give you the tools to sell your product. If you don’t want to sell in their store and on their platform because you don’t like their rules, pull your app and sell it somewhere else.
Not every manufacturer of a product gets to sell their goods in Walmart. Especially if they are telling Walmart how little they should be paying Walmart for their product or placement of it. And how Walmart should be running their store. Hey Walmart, I don’t want to pay you for retail space in your store, and I don’t think I should be selling you my product at the price you want me to, and I also want you to start letting my customers use Apple Pay at your stores, so you can’t soak up all of my customers data. Give it to me for free. Not happening! So they go somewhere else to sell their product.
You can say this is greed from Apple, or you could also say trying to circumvent their store is a way for them to milk a little more money out of the customer and possibly having a terrible experience with whatever these developers have in mind to setup.
Epic only has interests for themselves. Not the customer. They know they have a huge following of ‘kids’ that they think makes them a powerful overlord, that will promote their agenda. Being 47, I remember the early computing days and the insanity there was with Windows’s malware and the nightmare that it caused. Having your computer locked up and not knowing how to fix it was a mess and still is, to a point. Etc etc etc. I don’t want this experience again with my phone, which is the most important information keeping device, and computer that is with me almost 24/7. No thanks.
The iPhone, for the most part has been extremely secure and hasn’t had any notable hacks that have debilitated their ecosystem. But that day can come, and will if you let moronic and greedy corporations tell you how you should run your store because it’s in their best interest, not the consumers.
I get so sick of hearing about all this crap and this is probably the only time I’ll ever comment about the sorry a$$ company that Epic is. They bleed money out of these kids with the most ignorant little ‘mini purchases’ I’ve ever seen in my life. Greed period.
The villains in movies, never thinks they are wrong in doing what they are doing or even the villain. They think they are right and justify what they do, or want to do. Power and greed has clouded Epic’s intentions for their ‘customers’. All they want is more money and more power. Just had to get it out my system. ? I back Apple 100% with this and nobody will ever change my mind.
I also own android devices and use them sporadically, but in completely different and limited trusting ways. I never put any incredibly important information into any of those devices. Just my two cents. <end of rant>
