HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Consumer choice is good. If Safari is best browser, let customers choose it as default. If customer wants some other browser as default, let them choose the other. If Apple App store is best app store through a consumer lens, they will use it. If someone else offers some benefit to that consumer, they will use that one. Maybe the App Store offers some benefit for one app purchase and some other App Store offers a desirable benefit for another app? If so, consumer can "shop around"- as we all do for other purchases- to get the best deal for each consumer.
If you have as little as ONE app on your Mac that you got from some source other than the Apple Mac App Store, you should very much appreciate this EU freedom because you indulged in it yourself (where you were able). If you are not in the EU now, you're just NOT able to do the same on iDevice apps... but our EU friends can. Now they get to decide such things for themselves vs. as it is for the rest of us where a for-profit, richest-in-the-world, "company store" has a complete hold on all such decisions for us.
See IE circa 199X when it was the default choice for Windows and- as such- quickly crushed the established competitor at the time and came to dominate the browser space so much that the Apple resurrection under Jobs had to include IE on Macs into the early 2000s. Remember IE for OSX? I think it was on Macs until about 2003 or so when Safari finally arrived. If you didn't rail against consumer choice of browser to benefit Microsoft Inc. back then, we might want to think a little more carefully about how we feel about this scenario now. Just because we love this other brand much more doesn't mean the underlying motivations & limitations & opportunism is not just about the SAME.
A group of customers gaining the power to decide what software they want on their own computing tech is equivalent to all of us Mac owners getting to decide which software we want on our Macs and/or from where we wish to procure apps and/or pay the fees for the services related to such apps. If any of us are perfectly happy with Apple and only Apple choices of browser, store, in-app fee processing... that doesn't mean that everyone else in the world is perfectly happy with the same. On Mac, we can choose the everything-Apple/Apple defaults options while the next guy can choose other browser/apps/in app purchase & payment channels, etc. If the next guy chooses different than me, that has zero effect on me... and vice-versa.
And if we are NOT in the EU, this also has no effect on "us"- our very limited choices of browser, no choices of App Store, select app availability or no availability as chosen by "Daddy" and/or how we pay some in-app fees to either split off a big chunk to Apple Inc or let all of it flow through to the creator of the app itself. This only affects EU Apple people and thus it seems THEY should have a say about matters relevant to only them... while the rest of us roll with how things are where we are (because that's the only non-choice we have)... instead of railing how these distant strangers should have to have it only as we have it and/or like/love/worship it ourselves.
As an American, I envy the much greater, very-Mac-like freedoms in the EU along these lines. I'd rather have choices than having a group of corporate strangers choosing for me... just as it has always been with Mac. Congratulations EU Apple people. Enjoy your freedom of choice!
If you have as little as ONE app on your Mac that you got from some source other than the Apple Mac App Store, you should very much appreciate this EU freedom because you indulged in it yourself (where you were able). If you are not in the EU now, you're just NOT able to do the same on iDevice apps... but our EU friends can. Now they get to decide such things for themselves vs. as it is for the rest of us where a for-profit, richest-in-the-world, "company store" has a complete hold on all such decisions for us.
See IE circa 199X when it was the default choice for Windows and- as such- quickly crushed the established competitor at the time and came to dominate the browser space so much that the Apple resurrection under Jobs had to include IE on Macs into the early 2000s. Remember IE for OSX? I think it was on Macs until about 2003 or so when Safari finally arrived. If you didn't rail against consumer choice of browser to benefit Microsoft Inc. back then, we might want to think a little more carefully about how we feel about this scenario now. Just because we love this other brand much more doesn't mean the underlying motivations & limitations & opportunism is not just about the SAME.
A group of customers gaining the power to decide what software they want on their own computing tech is equivalent to all of us Mac owners getting to decide which software we want on our Macs and/or from where we wish to procure apps and/or pay the fees for the services related to such apps. If any of us are perfectly happy with Apple and only Apple choices of browser, store, in-app fee processing... that doesn't mean that everyone else in the world is perfectly happy with the same. On Mac, we can choose the everything-Apple/Apple defaults options while the next guy can choose other browser/apps/in app purchase & payment channels, etc. If the next guy chooses different than me, that has zero effect on me... and vice-versa.
And if we are NOT in the EU, this also has no effect on "us"- our very limited choices of browser, no choices of App Store, select app availability or no availability as chosen by "Daddy" and/or how we pay some in-app fees to either split off a big chunk to Apple Inc or let all of it flow through to the creator of the app itself. This only affects EU Apple people and thus it seems THEY should have a say about matters relevant to only them... while the rest of us roll with how things are where we are (because that's the only non-choice we have)... instead of railing how these distant strangers should have to have it only as we have it and/or like/love/worship it ourselves.
As an American, I envy the much greater, very-Mac-like freedoms in the EU along these lines. I'd rather have choices than having a group of corporate strangers choosing for me... just as it has always been with Mac. Congratulations EU Apple people. Enjoy your freedom of choice!
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