Not that this is in any way relevant to the topic of Apple monopolistic practices but let's remember that Kaspersky's software correctly identified suspicious software (which turned out to be a malware designed by NSA) flagged it and uploaded it to Kaspersky's server for further analysis. That's what it is supposed to do, that's what we buy and install it for. If ,say, Norton software was smart enough and identified this malware it would do the same. US Government reaction might have been different but that's a different story.
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the iPhone is not a Monopoly - this lawsuit is going nowhere
if you want to play in your friend's sandbox you need to follow the rules.
Apple has shut down plenty of predatory apps. There is a need for a the police people need protection from predators.
if you want to play in your friend's sandbox you need to follow the rules.
Apple has shut down plenty of predatory apps. There is a need for a the police people need protection from predators.
That has been the risk with every OS from any vendor (and to a lesser degree also with large software suites like MS Office or Photoshop) since the dawn of time. With Apple there is even a term for this in the Urban Dictionary: sherlocked.
Usually the OS offering a feature for free is enough to sink a single-feature app (unless the app manages to do things significantly better or with a broader feature set). With iOS Apple additionally can ban apps that use special APIs or in other ways violate AppStore rules.
But there really is no risk of Apple ever incorporating almost all functionality third party apps offer. The number of third party developers is probably a magnitude larger than Apple engineers working on user-facing features. Apple has zero chance and interest into catching up with the breadth of a million+ third party apps.
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Well, I rarely remember myself what answers I gave to any of the security questions. Good luck guessing things I don’t even know.
Apple is having monopoly problems in USA (apple vs pepper), Europe (Spotify), Russia (Kaspersky).
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, maybe it is a duck.
A million + apps but the ones that succeed in grabbing a wide audience and enhance the iOS experience are going to get Sherlocked (thanks for introducing me to the term). Unless they are made by companies big enough to strike a deal or who are of more value to Apple (and less work and expense to administer) as standalones giving over the 15-30%.
I would just be keeping an eye on Apple as Apple looks to expand more into services and content as a source of revenue. It's not hard to see news and magazine app providers are going to start to feel the squeeze when Apple has a news app that can manage subscription payments.
Can someone tell me how Apple is a competitor if the feature they ALSO do is free with the computer? How does stopping a third party SELL a feature that the user has for free viewed as competing? Apple doesn't lose money if they allow it, they also don't gain by offering it for free.
First off, you make little sense. Forget the country; I'm not interested in any "security" software that inherently works and is often funded by its nation's spy service.
Second, Readdle does Spark. On iOS, this requires routing all your mail through them, which also means handing them your email password. After I found that out, I've never touched Spark. It has nothing to do with what country it's written in.
That was a weak response. You have anything to actually make a point with?
I agree. What is lost in this discussion is we do not know how tightly the features K wants to bypass with it's own software are integrated into the OS. It could very well be that if Apple allowed that it could bus some other feature; leaving users upset at Apple and not K. It's better, from a security and stability standpoint, to limit how apps can interact with core OS features.
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They may, if only for tax reasons. Shifting profits around has been a trick since Luca Pacioli.
I think Spotify's argument is rather rubbish, as demonstrated by Netflix which manages quite happily to sell its subscriptions without giving money to Apple. And Kaspersky? They want access to your phone that apps usually don't get. I don't want anyone to get access to my phone.
Possibly. Alternate explanation is companies can't hack it on their open and thus run crying to the government to help them out from the big bad monopolist.
Only a complete idiot would give their birthday as an answer to the security question "what is your birthday". My siblings would have no idea what I entered as "Your mother's maiden name". It certainly wasn't my mother's maiden name.
True, but again, whatever they wanted to do, they've already been at it for three years. Apple let it through their approval process three years ago and turned a blind eye until they replicated the functionality for iOS.
It was only about 5 years ago that my husband headed up a development team that had to submit apps to the App store. The approval process was pretty diligent according to their experience if it.
And Kaspersky is not a name that Apple is going to overlook. Apple moved the goalposts on them for the sake of what Apple was up to. Not to protect truth, justice, and the American way from something nefarious. If they we're that concerned, Apple would have acted three years ago.
That is so wrong. The reason as to why there are bugs in any software is because it is impossible to write software with no bugs.
Apple locking down their platform will not make bugs go away.
One can only minimize the number of bugs through spending more money on testing, but note that no amount of testing can detect all bugs.
My reply was in response to another poster comparing the existence of bugs like Group FaceTime to there being malware and piracy in the android App Store. I was explaining why the two are not at all similar.
Apple’s walled garden is well protected, nourished, watered & kept in blossom by the best gardeners in the world. If there’s a weed, they wack it. If there’s a bad bug, they squash it. Everytime I walk in my garden I’m in awe of its palette & synchronicity.
I’ve seen what awaits me in the neighbour’s garden, and I am far less impressed. Sure there are way more flowers in the garden, but its formation is a mess & the lack of a fence just allows any dog to piss in it, weed to penetrate it & makes it harder to maintain overall.
You all would have Apple give up one of the key defining features of its ecosystem just for some arbitrary notion like “fair play”?
I hope Apple is paying you well for this content. Beautiful imagery.
Isn't this the same company that was removed from all US Government computers because the Russians used their database of files scanned to target a CIA operative in Europe?
No. Absolutely not. I am sick of my credit card information getting out there due to places having horrible security. I do not want to deal with hundreds of payment processors instead of iTunes itself. If I have an issue with billing, I do not want to speak to someone in India I cannot understand because App X decided to use a small 3rd party payment processor.
This entire Spotify issue is just ridiculous to begin with. Apple's streaming service is the same price or cheaper. Really? That is the argument? Take any two competitors. Are their prices 100% the same? Do AMD processors with the same core count as Intel processors cost the same? No.
How is this any different than Pages, Numbers and Keynote which is free but Office 365 is not? Should we make Apple charge for those products so it matches the competition?
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You can install software outside of the App Store on macOS. You cannot on iOS. And I bet this will always be the case. Just like Windows 10 S vs Windows 10 Home/Pro. I bet there will be a default setting on future installs of macOS to only allow the App Store, but it will be able to be turned off.
Computers are different than phones/tablets. People need to stop comparing the two. This isn't Microsoft where they try to treat them the same.
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No this is the fact of not properly educating people in using password vaults and having the majority of the population NEED these security questions this basic to begin with.
Do you know what I do when a site has these types of questions? Like "What is your favorite book?" My answer is something like the following:
uyv*&FGV8fg29fg
And I store that in my password vault if I need it. It not "Game of Thrones" or some real book. It is just stupid to answer these questions.
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Apple was never about innovation. History has blinded many users here to think they were. Apple is and always has been improving upon what was already in place.
iPod - MP3 players existed before but Apple improved on the concept
iPhone - smartphones existed before but Apple improved on the concept
iPad - tablets existed before but Apple improved on the concept
Apple Watch - smart watches existed before but Apple improved on the concept
Apple never released something unique and truly innovative.
No Apple is not a Monopoly unless you also consider Sony and Microsoft a monopoly because there are no third party certifications if I want to create a PS4 or Xbox One game on my own and not give Sony / Microsoft a cut.
Not everyone lives in US. Americans were scared by their government Anti Russia propaganda machine however US is but a small fraction of the World. Kaspersky being the best security software there is it's American's loss.