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Unauthorized App Store Cydia Sues Apple for Anticompetitive Behavior
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Have you moved to Linux? On what hardware? I'm going to see how this plays out with the regulators and will otherwise reluctantly also move away from Mac and iPhone.
this argument doesnt make sense. IE was the most popular browser due to its default status amonst ALL operating systems and running on windows which is and was the most popular PC browser.
the app store is number 2 because there are only 2 app stores in mobile market which provide legal protection and privacy to users (for the most part). iPhone is also now dropped from 2nd to the 4th most popular phone on the market.
It is by comparison. You have to watch what you download. My grandma refused to listen to my advice to get an iPad instead of an iMac, and now every time I visit, I have to rid her of MacKeeper and 20 malicious browser extensions.
And they really, really want a walled iOS? Must be two completely distinct groups in that case.
But it's not your software. That's one of the reasons Apple doesn't charge for OS upgrades I suspect.
No, they're two completely distinct products. But they're also different groups.
If I had the time, I'd figure out which and blacklist wherever she's getting this crap from. If you've ever used the Internet without an adblocker (I guess hers broke?), all the ads on any download-related site are fake download buttons that give you malware, yes on Mac too.
In reality most of the marketplace, at least on the consumer side, doesn't care one way or the other. However, don't fool yourself into thinking that's the same thing as the status quo being the way the marketplace wants it.
I know they are afraid of the lash back. If they lock down macOS I'm moving to another OS, and so would many others. TextExpander is one example. There are others.
It does not matter if there is physical media. As a developer, I still need to pay Microsoft or Sony for the licensing of creating the game. I cannot, for example, create a game and release it on my website where Xbox or Playstation users can download the game and play it.
Malware, viruses, hackers and piracy existed before the iPhone, yes? Yet Apple didn't care whether you downloaded an app through their app store or got it 3rd party via the web or anywhere else... and they still don't
Do you really think the gaming marketplace exists in the same state as the smartphone marketplace? Because it certainly does not.
I know that there's a difference, but the competition is fairly healthy right now. It's not great that there are only two big competitors in the mobile OS space, but it's nice that the more open one is winning marketshare-wise. I see no justification for vilifying the player with minority market share. Clearly the users are there because they want to be.
On top of it all, these are nonessential products in a very new and yet-to-be-regulated market.
They are both computers. How many people do you know that own an iPhone and do NOT own a Mac, and vice versa.
Tons and tons. More importantly, the stats say it. Outside the US and Europe, most people have only a smartphone.
Also, they're for different uses cases. Example myself. I'm a power user on my PC but only use my phone for messaging and don't care for anything even slightly advanced on it. Hardly even install third-party apps. It's a phone, not a workstation.
US only, not the world. And it's close even in the US.
(btw, that's paywalled, I checked elsewhere)