Yeah it's not like any penalty they make Apple pay will be distributed to developers or customers.
Yep its possible this is just smoke without substance as said.
It's better than using something made in 1990. I want to be able to send HQ media to/from my Android friends and family and its appalling (although obvious why) Apple wont give us a better experience here.
^ has clearly never worked in tech support.
This is NOT a reason to take away consumer choice. There will always be stupid people who do stupid things.
Well then it happens. Your (and others) chicken little "sky is falling" fear falls flat on its face when you look at MacOS for the last near on 30 years.
I have had to deal with family members macs being infected. Just like Windows.
Maybe not. Apple does not have to provide APIs for others. Maybe they never should have. It’s not worth it.
It certainly is a reason to charge for it. Or simply not offer that service. After all, consumer choice is a two-way street.
I get what you're saying, but given how Apple has made it safe to download things on the Mac from outside of the App Store, I'd bet that they have something figured out for iOS. That said, I'm not totally convinced that multiple App Stores on iOS would be a fun experience if certain apps were to move out and one had no choice but to use them in certain cases. But who knows, in this case, it may just be the threat of other app stores will be used to convince Apple to roll back some of their policies that even they knew weren't sustainable forever.
Well PayPal’s fee is around 1-5% so...
When you have companies making wild claims and publications making it seem real, the start filing lawsuits and investigations which is their job. That is a lot different than politicians using their power to attack companies they don’t like because they don’t fawn after them. The ones that are cool as long as they pay and support them 100%. Stray and not agree with a move for get the millions donated, there will be hell to pay. How dare you!!! There’s that.
That is part of the argument to not allow this. Because Grandma will not know what she did to get a 3rd party App store on her phone. She will also not know what's going on with her phone if she becomes a victim of any type of phishing "click here for help" text, or apps that pops up on her screen. (more than likely, as not all grandmas are technologically inept).
Not until the government, or more likely the EU, force Apple to preload those 3rd-party stores so there will be a "level playing field".
Agree with most of what you said, but allowing third party app store will be disaster for users.
And? As I said it happens. We've been buying apps and others things on/for our Macs since forever. Yes an occasional anecdotal incident happens but we don't shut down an entire avenue of commerce because someone has been inconvenienced.
