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No we don’t. I don’t want more attack vectors on my devices.
If I judge humans by the article picture, I'd be convinced that all men have highly faceted abdominal muscles.
Unless that's some fancy airbrushing right there. Alright!
Unless that's some fancy airbrushing right there. Alright!
Its pretty amazing that people don't really understand this point of the whole argument. You want more stores on your phone? Right up until you realize you don't, and your phone doesn't work anymore. Then you blame Apple for letting all these stores on the phone....
The backup process is one of the places where Apple does a poor job. I would love an option to selectively restore things, and be able to pick the restore date on an item by item basis.
“I only want to restore my data for these 6 apps, and I want to restore the data for this application from three days ago.”
That’s simply not true. Every time you launch an app, the OS performs a check to see if the app is allowed to run. Allowing third parties to hook into that system and bless that apps are allowed to run will absolutely open an additional attack vector.
not having those app stores would generally mean not having those apps. In some cases that’s fine- i don’t use Adobe so i won’t install their store (for example) but if each common app has its’s own store, a lot of your phone’s space will be consumed by the Microsoft store, the Facebook store, the Tencent store, the Epic store, the Steam store, the Zynga store, the King store, the Adobe store, blah blah blah. all with their own licenses, purchase and return policies, privacy policies, update policies etc. It’d be a pain in the neck in a best-case scenario but God help you (cause Apple won’t) in the case of conflicts, incompatibilities, mystery bandwidth consumption, and other difficulties that might not be forseeable.
I don’t want to struggle with that crap. that’s why i chose an iphone. If epic wins this case the iphone turns into a schizophrenic mess within two years.
And keeping customers who prefer the experience of a single App Store with vetted apps. Maybe that is a bigger (and/or more valuable) market. You might want to remember that Epic was kicked out of the Google Play store as well.
So the "get out of jail free card" to extort developers and screw over consumers is to just sell your hardware below market value? Everything Apple is doing would be otherwise fine, but the mistake was Apple decided to instead sell at market price?
I’ve wondered about this exact scenario also. I’m sure epic would absolutely balk at anyone adding features to their monopolistic ‘walled garden’ game. Microsoft flight simulator doesn’t charge developers for addons. X-plane doesn’t charge their developers for addons. If I can develop whatever they call their Addams for cheaper than epic, wouldn’t that only benefit the consumer. Epic should be happy, but I seriously doubt it.
Isn’t that what Android is for? And if you’ve got a total hard on for iOS devices just don’t update the device to the very latest OS - you can jailbreak it for free and install any app you want. This is just a ******** attack against Apple having security on their devices.
Lol, and then I was wondering why Apple should care about subsidized hardware. What happens when consoles have been out close to a decade. 🤦
and you want to be quarantined on the jury for 2 weeks after at $25/day??
They better give you 5 star hotel for that with unlimited room service and mini bar + free in room ppv.
I‘m not volunteering
. I don’t think there should be any in-person/jury trials until we’re all vaccinated.
So that means no more jury trials.I‘m not volunteering
That's like four monopolies right there!
Huh, anyone know what economic term is for five monopolies competing in the same market?
Epic fail indeed.
Bro, you are talking about macOS? It is so amazing that fans can so easily forget macOS.....
Yes, just like MacOS where I have the App Store then I have Steam to get to it's games, I have Origin to get to EA games because they made them exclusive to their launcher, I have to get the Epic Games launcher for content from their platform that they paid developers to make exclusive to their platform and I have to deal with Adobe's malware launcher tool if I want to use their tools. If I'm not dealing with their app store like tools, I'm dealing with some apps random Sparkle updater deciding it hates life and having to go to their website to download an update because they borked something. Or perhaps worse an app not having any sort of automated update facility at all.
Yes, I'm really happy not to have to deal with that noise on my iOS devices. I get that this isn't for everyone and it's great that there is a choice in the mobile phone market to choose a device which runs an OS that doesn't require that.