The fortitude to boss companies around with issues they don’t understand? This is what they live for.Bravo !, didn't think they had the Fortitude to do so, but so glad they did!
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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Another Antitrust Bill That Would Allow Sideloading on iPhone
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Nobody will ever respond to that, get real.
We can't mind control current and future devs, but it's their choice to keep their App in, or simply offer it elsewhere. Just like it's your choice to continue using these Apps, or get something else.
I am trying to make examples because every time I use exclusive, I get countered with "Well Epic can just put it on the App Store so"....that is not what an exclusive is.
You must not be a paid app developer. That 15% or 30% cut on paid apps makes apps more profitable for developers, than if side-loading was allowed. Not less. Why? The potential for easier piracy. That's a major reason why many developers make less money from their Andriod apps than their iPhone apps, if they do both. (iOS apps do get cloned, but it's harder, so it takes time, and thus there's less of it.)
Well I didn't know if it was in the bill or whatever or that was a contractual agreement to allow side-loading. So I take it as a no then. Therefore, you are forcing those of us that prefer walled garden ecosystems to have a lesser experience because the potential of exclusive apps not being on the App Store.
You still haven't said what you are afraid of if you're "forced" to buy a game from Epic instead of the App Store?
And you've been told why your premise is incorrect, including in my last response that you failed to address.
Because I will need to enable the side-loading feature toggle people keep preaching about to get it, which will open my phone up to not just the Epic source but others.
How exactly is in incorrect.
Epic store exclusive is only on the epic store.
Yet people are telling me "Oh epic/developer can still put it on the App Store". That is not an exclusive then.
Free your mind, that also a broader term than just these two U.S. bills.
Judgements made in the EU and rest of world will also affect the U.S.
True. It remains to be seen how its]’s enforced and what is allowed. Apple has a lot of good lawyers who no doubt will drive a truck through any loophole.
If it can be enforced either by the bill, or allowing Apple to add it in the developer contract that all apps must also be on the App Store, even if they are more expensive, I will welcome side-loading with open arms. Because I will NOT be utilizing it, but my experience will not suffer because everything is on the App Store. And yes I will gladly pay more for the App Store version of it.
Just like I am all for right to repair. I personally don't do it and never will, but you are more than welcome to do it! So I champion the right to repair.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on where one can get apps. For an extra $99/annum, you can enroll as a developer, download Xcode to your Mac for free, and get apps from GitHub (source code you can compile). I have a bunch of code from GitHub running on my iPad (including emulators).
You can't get most any mainstream commercial apps that way
C'mon now - you know the difference..
Besides that, I shouldn't have to pay Apple another $100 year just to install Apps from elsewhere (without onerous and silly time limits). I'm not interested in developing Apps
Do seriously think the folks that run Epic, a billion dollar company, can't figure out how to make money? If the way to more money is through "exclusive distribution" as opposed to "store exclusive" that's exactly what they'll do. They're all about the money, so they're much like Apple in that regard. Epic isn't going to pay a dev a bunch of money for exclusive rights to a game and them proceed to turn down piles of cash from iOS users, just for the sake of being able to claim "store exclusive!!11!1!" They'll be perfectly happy with exclusive distribution if that's what gets them more money. The scenario you're outlining is entirely unrealistic.
Epic is not looking to be an iOS app distributor. They want an iOS App Store.
Unrealistic? Epic is not distributing their exclusive PC games on Steam and other platforms.
Why on Earth are people defending a totally non sensical lockdown approach on iOS when it's not that way on macOS?
It's every bit as secure, but much more flexible
The macOS model is the way here..
Do you guys not realize that Apple is only trying to defend their rent extraction
That's all this is
It's every bit as secure, but much more flexible
The macOS model is the way here..
Do you guys not realize that Apple is only trying to defend their rent extraction
That's all this is
This will never work out.
Apple should better start to cooperate, every bullheaded move they do makes things worse and justified the bills and lawsuits around the world. Cooperation is the only way out.
They just have to make the AppStore attractive, and devs will stay in, except a few ones, nothing to worry about.
There is one big problem with the piracy claim; most who would pirate would not have bought the app anyway.
Then I will forever be against side-loading and you cannot change my mind because you are asking someone who ONLY uses iOS due to the walled garden nature to suffer due to missing apps that would require me to side-load in order to install.
We already do know what it looks like. Check out GateKeeper for macOS.
Must be some kind of stockholm syndrome, or fear from the unknown, based on lack of knowledge!
Gatekeeper isn't 100% secure.
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