Apple needs to let go of the App Store as a revenue source. You charge what you need for operating costs but the percentages they're getting are loan sharky.
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Proton Sues Apple Over 'Artificial and Arbitrary' App Store Fees
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and since iOS was invented you knew you couldn't download apps from Safari. 18+ years yet you did nothing to make an attempt to switch to a platform that lets you download apps.
Apple owns and controls the only place to get apps on its own OS. Say what you want, but only Apple does that on any general purpose or mobile OS.
Sounds like Apple helped a user discover the Proton. Finders fee is well deserved for Apple.
For decades Mac’s didn’t have an AppStore. Now they do. What’s your point?
No, but the games industry has a choice of over a dozen different platforms all offering you choice over where you buy your games from. Don't like the prices Nintendo charge? Get yourself to GameStop or CDKeys.
Or to put it another way your iPhone 15 case doesn't fit your iPhone 16.
Zero relation to iOS so I have no idea what your point is.
What's your's?
Well, they're totally for-profit, and founded after Snowden reveals by CERN scientists (European Center for Nuclear Research). Founding fathers quickly left CERN to run the private company, now as a foundation. Two good points:
(1) they offer End-to-End Encryption (E2EE), ensuring Proton-to-Proton mails can't be decrypted on their servers
(2) They're enjoying good buzz as they fight lawmakers efforts to destroy e-mail privacy. However they comply with Swiss law (of course!) and provide Law & Order with whatever isn't E2E encrypted, such as metadata, server connection logs, and Proton-to-NonProton mail content.
“Platform owners” or one of two operating systems for a market of billions?
Many flavors of Android. But that's beside the point. Your current investment of apps/hardware doesn't get carried over so those arguments aren't valid.
Nintendo still makes money from every sale of new copies from GameStop/CDKeys
I didn’t make an argument at all. I asked a question, and you projected some strawman arguments on top of it.
None of that answers my question. I’m all for regulating Apple if they are found to have violated antitrust law. I just think alt stores are a poor remedy.
Luckily for me that’s not where this is going to end up. Poor Apple I say!
then you have no one to blame for but you for the terrible decisions you made
Yep there is. But there are only two for the billions and billions of smartphone users. Which is my point.
But they don't have a monopoly over the distribution of software to a billion devices.
And actually yes, my current investment of games and peripherals does get carried over.
PS5 plays PS4 games, older PSN purchases and works with PS4 controllers.
Switch 2 works with all Switch 1 games and accessories.
My Xbox Series X plays discs I bought back in 2003.
I said discover. you replied to it
"Sounds like Apple helped a user discover the Proton."
Yes. They certainly pay for access. Apple isn't a monolith. Each department will have a cost center, each app will have a Product Manager with a budget. And they all utilize Apple's payment systems by default - hell, even if they set up a subscription service on the web they'd still be using Apple's payment systems.
Selfish are the $3 trillion corporations. Foolish are their defenders. Users telling others to leave because they want to turn a blind eye to Apple's faults seems pretty selfish from my pov as well. My 2c.
Hardly anyone choses the iPhone because it is a closed ecosystem (the numbers will be higher here, but most iPhone users aren't here). The closed nature of the App Store probably isn't in the top 10 reasons of why most people buy an iPhone. It's be a false dichotomy anyway, as Google is just as big of a monopolist on the Android side too (try using one without Play Services). Switching just invites a new set of issues to critique, it doesn't solve the problems with either platform.