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.
Indeed, so I wonder why the bill also aims at Android. (Although Android One may be an exception, I think Google was trying to close down sideloads.)
That being said, all the competing stores for Android are terrible. The Amazon Store is small, often out of date, and full of spam and questionable apps. APKMirror is just a copy of the Google Store. F-Droid does at least serve an open source nice that is distinct. All other stores are strictly worse.
Yeah I'm confused by that, too... while the other stores on Android may be terrible, you don't have to use a store at all on Android anymore than you have to on a PC.
This is coming from North Dakota, one of the reddest states in the nation. Most likely this is aimed at punishing Apple and Google for delisting Parler, and the author is trying to be sneaky and conceal his Trump-derived motivation.
1. Looks to be a correlation between a politican and the people they represent. 2. Politicians are not great at being sneaky. 3. Parler is not Trump. Neither was it hate; hate speech was always modded off the platform --in spite of what the msm fed you. Parler represents resistence to the mass suppression of free speech.
If people want to talk about election results they should be able to. D'uh. Open platform like Parler allows for audit, so it's easy for police to police it should some nimwits strive for vi
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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:Apple (Score:3)
Indeed, so I wonder why the bill also aims at Android. (Although Android One may be an exception, I think Google was trying to close down sideloads.)
That being said, all the competing stores for Android are terrible. The Amazon Store is small, often out of date, and full of spam and questionable apps. APKMirror is just a copy of the Google Store. F-Droid does at least serve an open source nice that is distinct. All other stores are strictly worse.
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Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
Re: Apple (Score:1)
1. Looks to be a correlation between a politican and the people they represent. 2. Politicians are not great at being sneaky. 3. Parler is not Trump. Neither was it hate; hate speech was always modded off the platform --in spite of what the msm fed you. Parler represents resistence to the mass suppression of free speech.
If people want to talk about election results they should be able to. D'uh. Open platform like Parler allows for audit, so it's easy for police to police it should some nimwits strive for vi