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There is a one-word refutation for your assertion that it is - somehow, in some way - impossible to sell or install a non-Apple approved app: jailbreak.
That’s dumb. It’s Apple’s store and you aren’t being forced to use it.
Apple has nothing to do with what anyone decides to sell where; what Apple has to do with is making sure that apps/developers can't circumvent the security precautions/processes required to install the apps.
And everywhere you sell you will have to pay fees. Target, Walmart, etc. And if you think of opening your own store you will not pay a fee but your infrastructure cost will shoot through the roof.
Wonderful!
Now how do you get your iPhone fixed if this third-party App Store hosts software that infects your iPhone with malware?
What if that software bricks your iPhone, who pays?
What if this third-party App Store installs an app that wipes all your data. How do you get it back?
Detailed answers with complete logic, please.
Apple's monopoly is going to fall and that day can't come soon enough.
3 Clicks from the App Store Setting > Subscriptions > [Pick a subscription] > Cancel Subscription
WOW that was so difficult!!!
So… your signature says "I didn't leave Apple Inc, Apple Inc left me."… and… when will you be leaving MR, because surely you have no interest being here since you obviously aren't using any Apple products any more, right?
Want to know a dirty little secret?
Just about everything you see inside a Wal-Mart isn't actually owned by Wal-Mart. For example, have you ever purchased jewelry in a Wal-Mart? I hate to tell you, but that jewelry counter isn't owned by Wal-Mart. It's owned by a third-party company that *GASP* rents the space from Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart staffs it, takes care of it - does practically everything but buy the stock of merchandise. In reality it depends on the store, but as little as 10% of everything you can see in a Wal-Mart is technically not owned by Wal-Mart, or is even Wal-Mart property.
Do you think for a second you could get away with *NOT* paying Wal-Mart for that arrangement?
Having to jailbreak your iDevice to bypass Apple's restrictions and be able to install apps outside of Apple's app store means that Apple does not "allow that just fine."
Try to keep up.
That is neither what you said, nor what you claimed. You maintained it couldn't be done. With one word I proved you wrong.
Try to keep up.
Boycott any developer the supports this! I will not be using any app that does not come from Apples App Store.
Try to understand that just because you aren't being prevented from selling something you can't force other people/companies to a remove their security precautions to have it installed.
I’m just curious how much longer we are going to continue to elect officials that will drop to their knees and swallow for money. At this point I would prefer actual prostitutes take over governing duties.
As for greedy developers trying to compromise my security and privacy so they can sell their wares, I would gladly use the web instead of third party apps and would smile as your revenue streams dropped to zero. The App Store made the iPhone what it is today, but it can’t be allowed to dismantle people’s privacy and security. There is a reason there is no malware on iPhone. How dumb do you have to be to not be able to see that these open ecosystems have malware but Apples closed ecosystem does not. How is their any discussion or argument beyond that? What are the pros again? I’m team iPhone 100% but open that ecosystem Apple, and I’ll move to a Linux phone or abandon smart phones all together.
As for greedy developers trying to compromise my security and privacy so they can sell their wares, I would gladly use the web instead of third party apps and would smile as your revenue streams dropped to zero. The App Store made the iPhone what it is today, but it can’t be allowed to dismantle people’s privacy and security. There is a reason there is no malware on iPhone. How dumb do you have to be to not be able to see that these open ecosystems have malware but Apples closed ecosystem does not. How is their any discussion or argument beyond that? What are the pros again? I’m team iPhone 100% but open that ecosystem Apple, and I’ll move to a Linux phone or abandon smart phones all together.
Exactly this. It's mind blowing to me there is a movement trying to push companies from doing what they put in place. If I'm a developer, that's my choice to agree to THEIR terms if I want to use THEIR service on THEIR devices. If I'm a developer and I don't like that, well, then I should be designing my own phone for my apps or just not use THEIR platform.
The self-entitlement of today's society is absolutely gobsmacking.
That said, I've always said Apple has been sneaky in taking good apps and 'melding' them into their own existing or new apps (2Do is a good one - the new reminders is very similar to it and other organization apps). I think that's dirty.
But agreeing to terms and then trying to change it or have it regulated is just unreal.
That's like me going to be bank and saying, "HEY! I agreed to x % mortgage rate 5 years ago into a 20 year mortgage, but you're making too much money so screw that.....I'm only going to pay you 0.5%"
HUH?
What the bill is trying to address is allowing iOS developers to make their apps available outside of Apple's app store, whether that be selling them directly or through other channels.
This is the point I'm addressing. Why is this a bad thing on iOS but is okay with macOS?
The same way people have been getting their Macs fixed for over 30 years when they get their software outside of the Apple app store and have problems with it.
The owner.
iCloud back ups
Who said it was free? I never implied hosting and (and maintaining) the servers was free. I said they host your package for free. Free of charge (to the package owner).
You would think Apple could totally do it as well if that means having lots of apps that enrich its platform (the iPhone).
As an Apple customer, no I don’t want to use android. Thanks but no thanks.-
Thank you for supplying a fantastic post on why we should avoid third-party App Stores !
Or a Windows phone... that has no apps. Where’s Windows phone now? That’s what happens when your OS has no apps. See why Apple needs app developers so much?