Being locked in a walled garden is what a lot of people want. Many people have lived with the windows and android way of doing things for a long time and want something better than what they are able to offer. These regulations force apple to operate the same way as android. It’s a net loss of choice for consumers.
Do you have any source for that? As far as we know it could be exactly the same amount of people that likes to side load on android as exist on ios
These regulations satisfy business interests at the expense of consumer interests. I suspect the long term outcome will be good for businesses and bad for consumers. I suspect we will see increased fraud, decreased privacy, higher costs and generally a worse consumer user experience.
Considering this regulation is for the market first, consumer interest aren’t respected whatsoever.
And secondly EU have drastically less instances of fraud happening. And android gaveling not even 0.1% harmful apps running. I’d say you’re making a big deal with no foundation.
A new transparency report on Android security shows that far less than one percent of all devices have a potentially harmful app running on them.
duo.com
If most people won't notice anything changed, the regulations failed and should be revoked.
If you have regulations that are designed to fundamentally change the relationship between consumers, Apple and developers but consumers don't notice any change, the regulations have failed to do what they set out to do. And if you believe that now, why do you support these regulations?
Obviously you don’t know what the regulations are set out to do. The regulations main purpose is to change the fundamental relationship between apple and smaller businesses. Not between consumers and apple. According to EU, people owning an iPhone aren’t Apple consumers for buying a phone. This includes the hardware and software.
And unless they subscribe to them it doesn’t change.
My assumption is consumers will notice a difference for the worse, which indicates the regulations have failed.
Your assumption is consumers will not notice a difference, which indicates the regulations have failed.
The scenario we are missing is consumers notice a difference for the better, but neither you or I are advocating that.
If consumers doesn’t notice anything= apple made a superior product and nobody will change their behavior.
If consumers notice anything= then Apple wasn’t doing the best product and held back the market by force.
So the upshot is we all seem to be in agreement that consumers won't notice anything better, won't notice anything at all, or may notice something worse. And you are supporting that why???
Remember these regulations aren’t Apple specific. They target multiple companies. Even google is targeted explicitly how they force android on phone makers and restrict them.
If side loading is important to a consumer, they will have bought android. If side loading is not important to a consumer, they will have bought iOS or android. Therefore it is safe to assume that iOS users do not find side loading an important consideration. The consumer market has therefore decided that they want both the android and iOS model. These regulations get rid of the iOS model meaning a consumer can no longer choose that model.
This is completely false.
If a person who have a list of things they value.
Apple Watch compatibility
iMessage support.
AppStore library of 5 years.
icloud realy.
iOS privacy focus.
Then you want side loading, so do you sacrifice and sell your apple watch and everything else just to getting one thing?
I have been jailbreaking my iPhone since 2009. I love how iOS works compared to android, but I only missed the few apps and system settings only cydia could fix
