This is a lie. When Apple introduced the App Store developers were used to the open Mac ecosystem. iOS was not primarily targeted by console developers but ordinary software developers not used to such cuts and walled gardens. You are also mixing up the timeline. The internet existed for more than a decade and people were already used to download software and pay in a multitude of ways.
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Japan Passes Law to Allow Third-Party App Stores on the iPhone
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It´s a old trick you are playing. Everyone can be a King. You just have to make the kingdom small enough. By isolating the Apple ecosystem and neglecting their relative size to their competitors (Google, Microsoft, Meta, Spotify, Epic+++).
The other platforms have a stake in this battle, it´s an opportunity to weaken a competitor. So they unite with the likes of Spotify (who sold their customers to Facebook years and years ago). This is not a heroic battle to provide the platform users with "freedom". It´s a battle to grab as much as possible of the assets from the users. It is not fought on your behalf. It is fought by huge corporations using a "s**tload of lobbyists and lawyers". The prize is not your freedom of choice. The prize is your cash and every possible detail of personal information they can get their hands.
This battle escalated when Apple put restrictions in place by allowing their users to choose to limit the info vendors could get through their apps. Before that, it was basically Epic(?), Spotify and your cash only.
When Apple offered the option of more privacy, Google, Microsoft and what not chipped in, and they started to work on governments around the world. A massive well directed and planned strategy directed towards governments, unions and public opinion.
One really has to be naive if one believes anything, and I do mean anything related to this, has anything to do with users "freedoms" of any sort. It´s all about your cash and full access to your personal information.
Not surprised. Only a matter of time before Apple will be forced to do so in other countries.
The existence of industry-standard fees on an industry where the costs are variable and everyone’s making a good profit strongly suggests implicit collusion.
The solution to that is to allow users to restrict iPhone which real data each Darwin user can access. For data accessed from shared locations through libraries, the existing HealthKit and photos interfaces are a good example (there’s no way for an app to tell what data you haven’t given access to) and for file system data the macOS containers and all the other similar approaches (chriots, jails, etc) suggest the way forward, especially if users can provide named pipes to substitute for real devices (eg fake locations instead of real).
That would also improve security and usability even if you only used apple App Store apps, because then you don’t have to rely on Apple’s testers to spot whatever meta etc. can think of.
Because they kill whales and dolphins and have the most extreme and weird sex kinks one can imagine.
Governments want your data and to track you even more than bigcorp so probably they didn't need much persuasion.
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MacOS and iOS are completely different.
You see, Apple was innovative, created App Store, so they can cut 30% from developer. As someone said in previous thread, developers were very thankful for Apple’s generosity. They were all supportive.
Also you don’t carry your MacOD deceives all the time right? You carry your iPhone all the time, so privacy and security requirement is different. iOS users need walled garden protection, without our data will be leaked like broken pipes. Oh what a nightmare, this brought my memory of flooding basement. You don’t want that. You need protection for you privacy and security. This is “something ONLY Apple can do”.
At one point does Apple’s hardware sales start to drop? Because, all these countries are doing is saying that they want to restrict mobile OS’s to Android and iOS, which means continued and expanded use of iOS (and developers will be pushing iOS because they can actually make a profit from it).
As a developer I can assure you that 3rd party Apps can protect your data from Google, but you do have to be diligent in how you setup and use the device.
If you are an Android developer and have information to the contrary, please share it or a link.
Correct. iOS is much more secure than macOS. The average consumer that has zero technical understanding of security is much safer using iOS than macOS.
Propaganda at work. If Apple spent as much on freedom, code quality and security as they do on propaganda (marketing) then one Apple store would be enough.
Apple needs the one store concept to protect their security house of cards.
This is patently false. We have grandparents with no technical background that use macOS just fine and have not been riddled with breaches, malware, or spam.
So, macOS is less safe than iOS. That doesn’t fit Apple’s goal of providing safe and secure operating system? So macOS users don’t get the same treatment as iOS?
Or Apple is just being double standard?
I was replying to two posters who said that third party app stores would create a "security and performance nightmare" and "bloated mess". I was just pointing out macOS allows downloads from third parties and yet isn't a "security and performance nightmare" nor "bloated mess". Yes iOS is more secure, due to the single Apple controlled app store, but macOS isn't exactly a "security nightmare".
I'm not sure point you think I was making.
“Hacking”
LOL. LMAO even. That’s not what it is but ok
I think a Radiohead lyric is appropriate here. Apple:
You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
Is that you do it to yourself, just you
You and no one else
You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
Is that you do it to yourself, just you
You and no one else
Do you folks not read?
I was replying to two posters who said that third party app stores would create a "security and performance nightmare" and "bloated mess". I was just pointing out macOS allows downloads from third parties and yet isn't a "security and performance nightmare" nor a "bloated mess".
I don't disagree that macOS is less secure than iOS, but I never made the opposite argument. Not sure why you replied that way. My point is that macOS isn't a "security nightmare".
LOL, a new account is newly made! worthless
Apparently I am not sarcastic enough.
If you read what I said on post #296 you will know what my opinion is.
Apparently I am not sarcastic enough.
lol, no joke some people on here love apple that much.
Whenever someone wants to make anything new legal, people say it will lead to the end of the world.
The funny thing is that they say that even when other countries already legalized and live happily.
Windows and macOS already have this, I'm fine with both. Android too.
That´s a tree in the jungle, and the forest bottom is full of red ants and snakes. Too hard to navigate for the users, and Google knows that very well. They get what they want.
Microsoft is fresh in the in-platform shop game. Further, that´s not how Microsoft twist arms. They have entirely different strategies, and compared to Apple, HUGE volumes to draw on. On every occasion I have used Windows frequently the last 20 years, it has been because I was forced to. Had nothing to do with "my" platforms and their capabilities. A close relative of mine, the Professor, was a long term Mac (and iPhone) user, and was forced to convert. All applications were available on her Mac. I know that, because i performed tests of them all, and verified compatibility.