You don't pay 30% extra. You pay some smaller portion, because the 30% only comes out of the paid apps. The value you get from free apps which you wouldn't get if someone else had to cover the costs.
Think about it:
1. We don't have to worry about searching for an app. We can find the apps without all the SEO or anything, and they are all in one place.
2. Defending their trademark (fake apps don't exist in the App Store). How awful would it be if you searched Google for Bank of America iPhone App, you
Android has always allowed competing app stores, and you can even change a security setting yourself and just download apps directly from the web (just like how it works on a real computer). Amazingly, the sky has not fallen. In the face of Android already proving it can work, Apple's argument is just control freak bullshit.
I still however, do not want to see government intervene in that situation.
Sometimes Uncle Sam has to get out the belt, because businesses don't always play fair. See the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act [wikipedia.org], as an example from the automotive industry.
Android has always allowed competing app stores, and you can even change a security setting yourself and just download apps directly from the web (just like how it works on a real computer). Amazingly, the sky has not fallen. In the face of Android already proving it can work, Apple's argument is just control freak bullshit.
One thing that might be good to do is to get Apple customer's input on this.
What is being lost by not allowing them to install software from anywhere?
Do they care? The customers I know rather like the vetting and the one stop shopping.
As for Android - I believe that if you want to install software from a North Korean website that you know harvests your credit card info, well, go ahead. It's a different culture.
As an Apple customer, advocate, and stockholder I want device security, privacy, and choice. Parler wasn't booted for any of those reasons. Apple made a huge tactical error IMO.
Apple (Score:2, Informative)
Apple wants you to think paying 30% extra is a necessity. It is clearly not.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-44Nh_QkrQ
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Think about it:
1. We don't have to worry about searching for an app. We can find the apps without all the SEO or anything, and they are all in one place.
2. Defending their trademark (fake apps don't exist in the App Store). How awful would it be if you searched Google for Bank of America iPhone App, you
Re: (Score:4, Insightful)
Android has always allowed competing app stores, and you can even change a security setting yourself and just download apps directly from the web (just like how it works on a real computer). Amazingly, the sky has not fallen. In the face of Android already proving it can work, Apple's argument is just control freak bullshit.
I still however, do not want to see government intervene in that situation.
Sometimes Uncle Sam has to get out the belt, because businesses don't always play fair. See the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act [wikipedia.org], as an example from the automotive industry.
Re: (Score:2)
Android has always allowed competing app stores, and you can even change a security setting yourself and just download apps directly from the web (just like how it works on a real computer). Amazingly, the sky has not fallen. In the face of Android already proving it can work, Apple's argument is just control freak bullshit.
One thing that might be good to do is to get Apple customer's input on this.
What is being lost by not allowing them to install software from anywhere?
Do they care? The customers I know rather like the vetting and the one stop shopping.
As for Android - I believe that if you want to install software from a North Korean website that you know harvests your credit card info, well, go ahead. It's a different culture.
Re: Apple (Score:3, Insightful)
As an Apple customer, advocate, and stockholder I want device security, privacy, and choice. Parler wasn't booted for any of those reasons. Apple made a huge tactical error IMO.
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Parler got booted because they were hosting illegal content (death threats) and when notified refused to remove said content.