Additional regulation, no. Regulation shouldn't be applied on a sliding scale, more success in a free market = more regulation. Consumer protection laws are necessary, forcing sideloading isn't. I think I'm okay with forcing alternate payment systems, provided Apple still gets it's commission.
Thank you for proving my point, vis a vis:
There is no point to prove. Blanket statements are a wonderful internet arguing tool.Thank you for proving my point, vis a vis:
I rest my case. You had the gall to say that my statement that some would defend Apple’s current business practices, even if they had 100% of the smartphone market, an off the wall straw man.
Apple get more than enough through hardware sales of their iPhones.
That's fair. I'm a 40+ year old guy who grew up in Nintendo's heyday so I'm likely overvaluing the company in the gaming space. I know people love Mario, but I'm probably not *the* guy to ask about gaming. I see their market cap is ~$50B and that's less than Microsoft just spent, but I don't know if they're up for sale OR a good purchase. My larger point is just that it hurts that so much of the iOS gaming situation is about Free2Play games like Candy Crush and Farm Heroes. I know they make a ton of money, but that doesn't feel like the "Apple way". Apple has all these super capable Macs and the gaming situation is grim. I know Apple's never really cared about gaming, but maybe they should. It's a such a big business and them caring would make things better on these platforms we love.
Of course not, if you choose to ignore it. You went from calling my statement a straw man to completely validating it.
So is Apple going to ban sales of their devices in every single country in the world when a government decides to pass regulations that limits how Apple can do business? If Apple followed your advice they would go bankrupt and might even trigger anti trust regulations with that type of behavior that would certainly require Apple to be broken up.
The problem is the Apple App Store has malicious applications that pass thru their so called inspection process before an application is approved. Here is a link to an online article talking about some of these apps. https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-app-store-is-apparently-still-littered-with-malicious-apps
What other companies would they go after???? Google already allows users to side load applications which gives developers/consumers the option to bypass their official digital store.
That would be illegal since Apple can not refuse to fix a charger port under warranty due to the fact I side loaded an application on my phone that had nothing to do with the physical failure of the charge port. Apple would have a very high bar to tie the failure to the side loaded app.
That would be illegal in the United States since the magnuson moss warranty act puts the onus of proof on Apple that the damage was 100% caused by side loading and nothing else could have caused that issue. The can not just ban your warranty just for installing an application since Apple devices do occasionally fail without side loading.
The fees should be determined by the free market which Apple is actively blocking by forcing installation thru the Apple App store with no alternative ways to install. When side loading is allowed corporations/developers can decide if the Apple App stores fees are worth paying or go their own way by having users side load their application. If too many corporations/developers leave the Apple App store that would force Apple to lower their fees to a point where corporations/developers believe the cost is fair and benefits their application.
Well if you believe that that proving some internet arguing point starting with a generalized, blanket statement is proving it, you are certainly more than welcome to that opinion.
If a dev wanted to "save money" on some commercial app (that is not limited to some hardware on the iphone), they could certainly use a website and avoid all of this.
Partly yes, in e.g. South Korea for payments, but you’ll see more soon, keep watching.
The sad part is the one who are crying about their choices being taken away, are not having their choices taken away. If they do not want to side load you leave the option disabled and continue to use the Apple App Store. Nothing has changed about how they choose to use their Apple products.
If you do not like the fact an app is using leaves the Apple store then you vote with your wallet and go with an aleternative application that functions similarly. You have a choice regardless if you like it or not.
They probably wouldn’t, they would initially fire a warning shot. "If you're going to force us by law to allow sideloading/put a port of your choice on our phone/whatever, we will simply elect not to sell our device/service/whatever in your country/state." Then, the frothing at the mouth consumers (in the truest sense of the word) in that country/state who simply can't live without their Tik Tok viewing device will actually contact their lawmakers for once. The backlash should be sufficient that Apple won't actually have to halt sales in that region, but they need to follow through if pushed so that every country or state with idiot lawmakers wasting their time trying to make Apple more like competition that already exists doesn't get the bright idea to try and manipulate Apple. Apple needs to make it an unpopular idea to go after Apple for stupid changes forced by law so that it doesn't keep happening. The vast majority of Apple's users don't want this, governments do not need to be involved.
Epic’s stunt did not last long due to consumers voting with their wallet and not using their side loaded application. At the end of the day consumers should have a choice on how they can install applications on iPhones/iPads. Not to mention with side loading you could even install Microsoft Cloud Gamming application natively which Apple is currently blocking from being in their app store. Application side loading has it pros and cons but at the end of the day it is up to the user how they want to install the applications on their device not Apple.
