Based on what? That is the problem here. EU can and is know to make **** as time goes.
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Uh what? It's not just because.
Apple still has tons of expenses for these apps OUTSIDE THE APP STORE. And $99/year for a dev program ain't breaking even for Apple.
I didn’t say it’s not convenient, just that it’s not such a big deal.
Besides, the app store brings problems as well as benefits. The certification process makes non apple apps to lag on updates, for instance.
The App Store bans apps that I want to use such as emulators and Fortnite.
I can guarantee you many people thought that was one of the biggest negatives. I have been jailbreaking my iPhone since day one(when it was still possible) in order to have better functionality and features that Apple limited for business purposes.
Such as filming on the iPhone 3G
Having the flashlight on the lock screen on iPhone 4 or the came even
Having maps on the iPhone proper control center in iPhone 5 etc etc
Heck every one of these I had untill Apple implemented the functionality.
60 iOS Features Apple Stole from Jailbreakers
Because the software isn’t the same, is more feature rich and often cheaper.
They don’t charge the same price. From the AppStore it’s almost alway more expensive. And less capable.
Apple have in my personal opinion just provided a worse customer experience every year in regards to the AppStore for a while now.
Law has to meet certain criteria. Word itself is useless.
based on what their judges think of the laws their legislators wrote in conjunction with apples actions
duh?
For some maybe. I maintain that for the vast majority of iPhone users, the inability to sideload remains one of the key draws.
We can’t know until some time has passed with the new stores in function.
For you it may be so. For me it isn’t something I really care about. I value my iPhone mainly for its quality and integration with my macs and iPad, but definitely not because I can/can’t sideload apps. Even when I had an android phone didn’t use the ability that often, but it was nice to have.
and then you get back to using your brain. Same rules apply to the App store as their are a fair number of shady apps there as well. There are reasons to use ones brain on anything.
End of the day one just needs to be smart but saying that the App store is the only reason iOS is safe means then iOS is far from safe.
And what criteria aren’t they meeting allegedly according to you?
The best part is, for those users, they don’t need to side load any apps.
Haha. If you want to allow the „poor“ farmers (which have been found to have had gains like in no other time before) to nuke their soil for all thinkable life and ecosystem just so they can sell their wares better, sure, completely deregulate everything. But then don‘t complain when somehow whole animal families are going extinct because the poor farmers soil media is optimized for one fruit only.
yes it is. Either you shop in the App Store and if you don't like what's offered there, you go somewhere else. I don't understand why people can figure this out for the Mac, but their brains go into short-circuit mode when it's for the iPhone.
You're missing the bigger picture. It's change of paradigm nobody asked for. We already had an Android for this kind of adventures.
Well obviously by the comments here, the developers complaining and the underlying material for the market investigation that informed the commission to what legislation they should make.
you want to know what nobody also allegedly didn’t ask for all those years ago? An iPhone with a bigger screen than 3.5”.
And now we have a screen close to 7” that nobody asked for…. But everyone loves it.
Oh they give the argument that they might take the app they use on the app store away when they pull it. It is the standard freedom but dont make me have to suffer otherwise. Also I have learned a lot of people screaming about it is a bad idea also forget the App store for the iPhone is not the historical norm. Historical norm is to have hardware and software sales pretty seperate and no gating it. It has always been free to sell your software threw multiple sources. iOS is not the norm.
They fail to understand freedom cuts both ways. Yes some might leave but in the end it is for each developer to decide. If they choose to leave the store I find most of them when t hey do it offer a pretty cheap or even free transition over.
The other things iOS app store model breaks is upgrades vs bug fix updates. You buy onces and get free updates for life never really supply a dev a way to justify maintenances cost of an App hence why a lot of software has upgrade pricing for new versions. This is also way SAaS because so big on iOS. There was no way to justify the app maintenance with out it as software developer time is really expensive.
Here we have a blast from the past.
INTERNAL APPLE PRESENTATION: We Don't Have What Consumers Want
Apple's executives know there's a problem.
www.businessinsider.com
INTERNAL APPLE PRESENTATION: We Don't Have What Consumers Want
Steve Jobs Turned Out To Be Completely Wrong About The Key Reason People Like The iPhone
"No one's going to buy that."
www.businessinsider.com
He replied that he disliked the new crop of bigger phones from Samsung et al. "You can't get your hand around it," he said, "no one's going to buy that." He also derided big phones as "Hummers."
That’s not physically possible so we don’t have to worry about it
You are not wrong, of course, but at the same time, I feel that statements such as this ring hollow and superficial and show a lack of understanding as to what makes an iPhone, uniquely an iPhone.
It’s not just the physical hardware and software features (or lack thereof). It’s also the essence. It's the whole philosophy undergirding them.
Think back to how Apple products have often been lambasted for lacking this feature or that, and that's what makes them so very unique in my perspective. Apple products have never been concerned about shipping with the most features, but about being cut down to their most basic form, with nothing standing in between them and the user.
Once upon a time, the iPhone was routinely criticised for lacking expandable storage and removable batteries, which android smartphones have had since the start. The common argument was that users were not losing anything from the addition of said features. “You don’t have to insert an sd-card into your phone if you don’t want to”, critics parroted.
As it turned out, not only did iOS users not mind the absence of said features, but more and more android phones started to also remove expandable storage and removable batteries when they noticed that having those features was not helping sales one bit. This jives in with Apple's philosophy of minimalism and purity in hardware design. They would rather simply include a larger battery than accommodate a removable battery which would otherwise sacrifice the integrity and beauty of the device, and they were probably right.
I am also the kind of person who (still) believes the MBP should come with 4 usb-c ports and nothing else, even if it is more inconvenient due to the lack of MagSafe and HDMI, simply because the product looks nicer and more "pure" with 2 ports on each side. It's the same thing there. There is a certain elegance and a particular simplicity in having to deal with only one App Store where all apps have to go through, and where you can centrally manage all your app purchases and downloads. Of course I don't have to venture outside the App Store ever, but at the same time, just its mere presence is an affront to the design principles underpinning the iPhone - minimalism and purity.
1 device, 1 App Store. My way or the highway. This was the attitude that drew me to Apple products in the first place. Maybe I am preaching to the wrong choir here?
Ironic, I guess, that I am reminded of the fable of the oak tree and the tree. Apple is that oak tree, and they have encountered a gale so strong that they cannot stand fast against it.
