No thanks, because my solution means no one is forced to do something they don’t want. Your solution requires Apple to be forced to change and thus weaken the protections for the rest of us AND we will be forced to use 3rd party stores anyway whether we want to or not.
I'm pretty sure they were replying to your justifications for the legislation, not the legislation itself.
And I want all your money and possessions the same way I have mine. Just because you want something doesn’t mean someone should be forced to give it to you.
I didn’t used to be in favor of this, but after reading and learning about “Sherlocking” which is a practice of delaying or denying App Store approval until Apple or Google or Facebook (in the case of its Oculus store) could basically copy the developer’s app features onto the operating system, I’m now in favor of this bill.
You might have missed what I was asking I think: could I force my app to be strictly for the current existing AppStore model via Apple and not be downloadable/installable/etc via any third party way.
That post didn’t even state my primary justifications for the legislation. I was just responding to a topic you brought up, which is your desire for a curated experience.
Which you claimed I didn't have a right to, because you like some parts of iOS but still want to have different AppStores and think you can pick and choose your features through Acts of Congress. Yes, I remember.
carpeaqua.com
What about folks who’s Mac is always with them? Should they not have equal choices across OSs?
Sorry, you're right. You didn't say that specifically. It was my extrapolation to where the curated experience was lost because once the walls are down on the garden the curator loses the ability to wrangle the developers. Your point was that we shouldn't be allowed to have a walled garden ecosystem.
Now I honestly can't tell if you're arguing with yourself. Not one of those shows a case of Apple delaying or denying app approval so they could steal features.If you're honestly interested - click on some of the links on just that first page
A ton of info there.
https://www.economist.com/babbage/2012/07/13/youve-been-sherlocked (sub required)
Stop "Sherlocking" Yourself
Back in the early days of OS X, Karelia Software had a product called Watson [http://www.karelia.com/watson/]. At its time, it was one of the best apps for the new Apple OS and really showed the power of what was possible using the Cocoa frameworks and theMichael Tsai - Blog - The Indie Life
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Or use a search engine of your choice. It would take a whole thread to cover sherlocking over the years and it's not the topic of this thread
Cheers
Sherlocked as a term[edit]
Advocates of Watson made by Karelia Software, LLC claim that Apple copied their product without permission, compensation, or attribution in producing Sherlock 3.
Some disagree with this claim, stating that Sherlock 3 was the natural evolution of Sherlock 2, and that Watson was obviously meant to have some relation to Sherlock by its very name.
The phenomenon of Apple releasing a feature that supplants or obviates third-party software is so well known that being Sherlocked has become an accepted term used within the Mac and iOS developer community.[2][3][4]
I'll be very surprised if the NSA doesn't advise against this.
My understanding is that it is not. You should really give it a try-- it sounds like exactly what you're looking for.
I enjoy sarcasm as much as the next person, but the hysterics over the curated experience disappearing is unfounded based upon real world examples.
Who’s going to pay the third party App Store to host your app?
