When will people understand not everyone in the jailbreak community uses it to pirate apps.
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Unauthorized App Store Cydia Sues Apple for Anticompetitive Behavior
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Here in lies the problem....a phone is a vital necessity. A premium smartphone isn’t. You can get your “vital” Nokia for free with a SIM card.
People tend to confuse “nice to have” with “need to have”.
This isn’t an all you can eat buffet where you get to pick and choose aspects you want from each manufacturer and then try to force them by claiming “monopoly“ or “anti-trust” or “anti-competitive”. Being a monopoly on your own product isn’t against the law; hell, it’s expected. Being successful through having a better product/ service/ business acumen isn’t against the law and isn’t “anti-competitive”.
This is the problem with the current generation...they want everything right now, have never been told “no” and everybody gets a participation award.
In the same way that auto manufacturers don't have the right tell you what roads you can drive on, Apple doesn't have the right to tell you what apps you can install. They do, but they shouldn't.
Slacking. Taking 36 posts before this gem gets wheeled out.
They should. I mean, Apple COULD have made apps for WindowsCE, but they designed built and marketed their own phone. If you’re going to hitch your horse to a mercurial host (ahemYouTube), then you play by whatever rules they provide.
In fact, I’d be willing to BET that this is just the first phase of Cydia’s marketing scheme at the end of which they will release... THE CYDIA PHONE!
That people and developers want a choice of how to distribute iOS apps. It's coming given all the antitrust activities from Washington and and state AGs.
And we did not sign up to buy a "Managed" device. I hope these arguments resonate with the State AGs.
The Apple App Store is full of apps that are spyware. Apple has done nothing to eliminate this problem. Only when outside security researchers write an article that gets disseminated widely does Apple do anything.
It would seem that the ignorance lies with you. Anti-trust laws don't only apply to monopolies.
15 U.S. Code § 45 - Unfair methods of competition unlawful; prevention by Commission | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute (cornell.edu)
Notice how the word 'monopoly' isn't used once.
And if this behavior is not stopped now, Apple will lock down macOS. It's already trying to do so.
With that logic I assume you won't mind if Apple locks down macOS and you cannot download software from anywhere else but the App Store?
You can only use Ford gasoline and Ford air for your tires.
I know it is shocking, absolutely shocking, the level of piracy on macOS.
you didn't understand my analogy. the plot of land is the iPhone not the phone market.
HaHa. And when could you make another mail app the default mail app? Of another browser the default browser? After all it is your device.
And if Ford used the same tactics that Apple does, you would have to buy a GM car. Now that sounds like a very consumer friendly market.
Here’s the thing: Cydia is a software broker whose business model is entirely dependent on 3rd parties finding security exploits so that the Cydia application can be installed on an iPhone. Let me emphasize this: security exploits.
Apple never allowed or provided a means for competing app stores. Nothing has changed here in the last 12 years. Apple is not maliciously buying up competitors, engaging in price wars, or (as far as we know) creating illegal agreements with one competitor to destroy another. Cydia has been around the entire time, recording millions of dollars in revenue, but again, they are relying on security exploits to insert themselves into the equation. What on earth is Cydia going to argue to a judge? Apple is causing economic harm to its customers by patching security flaws which can be used for malicious intent? That is the only thing the judge is going to hear once Apple starts it’s argument in defense.
This is the question that Cydia is demanding be answered:
If I create a platform, then establish a marketplace within that platform, am I obligated to facilitate a competitor‘s marketplace within that platform? Your answer to that question has to be applied to a trillion-dollar corporation as well as a mom & pop company that can barely make payroll.
- Are gaming consoles with digital marketplaces obligated to create a means for competing marketplaces? What if the competing marketplace supersedes the original marketplace? Can the console manufacturer then charge rent since their marketplace is failing behind?
- If vehicle manufacturers add marketplaces to their entertainment systems, are they obligated to facilitate 3rd parties adding their own marketplaces to take share away from the OE? (specifically marketplaces, not just apps)
- If I buy an Alexa-enabled smart speaker, is Amazon obligated to give me the option to route my purchase requests to Walmart.com, overriding the default purchase mechanism? (Walmart is teamed up with Apple & Google)
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: Apple is using all its leverage to control the entire experience of its products and services: Brand, fashion, trust, security, performance, experience. There’s a reason that devs make far more money in the iOS universe - Apple has created an environment where the target audience is willing to spend money.
Apple never allowed or provided a means for competing app stores. Nothing has changed here in the last 12 years. Apple is not maliciously buying up competitors, engaging in price wars, or (as far as we know) creating illegal agreements with one competitor to destroy another. Cydia has been around the entire time, recording millions of dollars in revenue, but again, they are relying on security exploits to insert themselves into the equation. What on earth is Cydia going to argue to a judge? Apple is causing economic harm to its customers by patching security flaws which can be used for malicious intent? That is the only thing the judge is going to hear once Apple starts it’s argument in defense.
This is the question that Cydia is demanding be answered:
If I create a platform, then establish a marketplace within that platform, am I obligated to facilitate a competitor‘s marketplace within that platform? Your answer to that question has to be applied to a trillion-dollar corporation as well as a mom & pop company that can barely make payroll.
- Are gaming consoles with digital marketplaces obligated to create a means for competing marketplaces? What if the competing marketplace supersedes the original marketplace? Can the console manufacturer then charge rent since their marketplace is failing behind?
- If vehicle manufacturers add marketplaces to their entertainment systems, are they obligated to facilitate 3rd parties adding their own marketplaces to take share away from the OE? (specifically marketplaces, not just apps)
- If I buy an Alexa-enabled smart speaker, is Amazon obligated to give me the option to route my purchase requests to Walmart.com, overriding the default purchase mechanism? (Walmart is teamed up with Apple & Google)
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: Apple is using all its leverage to control the entire experience of its products and services: Brand, fashion, trust, security, performance, experience. There’s a reason that devs make far more money in the iOS universe - Apple has created an environment where the target audience is willing to spend money.
No your analogy is just poor. That's not how regulators will be looking at this because the artificial limitation is implemented at the software/OS level, not the hardware level. The hardware is perfectly capable of utilizing another app store. Apple's locking down of the OS is what causes the issue.
You're right. And every developer should first develop their own hardware and OS before they can release an app. OH but wait. They don't have to on a Mac or PC. But they have to on an iPhone. Please explain.