At least Microsoft had no way of stopping you selling apps for Windows but Apple is a next level of nefarious.
Apples been doing this "next level of nefarious" since the App Store's introduction in iPhoneOS 3.0, and it's been fine up to this point, otherwise the platform (and consequentially the apps on these platform -- spotify) wouldn't have thrived the way it did.
What competition? Apple has a 87% market share amongst US teenage population[1], Epic's core gamer market. It's basically a monopoly amongst their core demographic which will grow up to be adults with jobs and paycheck and guess what they'll buy? More Apple. With <13% market share Android isn't even in the race.
[1] https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-teens-iphone-e5...
Does Apple stop you from downloading Signal and communicating with your Android friends that way?
It's called "competitive advantage" in the US.
A healthy competitive environment should have 10+ options. The fact that two massive corporations have the entire space locked up is not sufficiently competitive nor healthy for consumers.
Yes, through social pressure.
There where a couple of companies that circumvented their security mechanisms and went to court. Was that wrong of Nintendo?
My opinion is that, as long as people keep buying and using it, Apple can do whatever they want in their platforms.
They will change when most app devs coordinately delete their apps from the store, in a mass "strike" or when customers stop paying for their shitty phones.
(Android user here.)
Apple doesn't make shitty phones, far from it. Solid build quality, performance and stability across the board... there are very few Android devices that can compete with Apple and almost all come from Samsung.
The MS case and recently lost Google case are closer to each other than anything going on with Apple.
what are you talking about? microsoft literally created and sold versions of windows that could only access apps sold through their own app store lmao
microsoft also has the exact same policies as apple does on their own "platform", try selling an xbox app without doing it through microsoft's store
they are possibly the worst example you could have given, and yet here you are doing the victory lap. cringe.
I own my phone, I make the rules.
If Apple doesn't want Epic on the App Store, fine. But their current level of control over what people can do with the devices they purchased and own is absurd and has nothing to do with market size.
"Won't someone please think of the children?"
Yes I have, you don't know me. And that's not an argument. Apple's MacOS is open unlike iOS and that's not full of malware or users getting scammed daily then what makes you think they'll suddenly start getting scammed on iOS. Explain that please.
HN is full of temporarily embarassed walled garden magnates.
The say I don't want oligopolies or walled gardens punished because one day I could own a walled garden money making machine!
I don't see the issue with this... it's not like they're exploiting an inherited platform like Oracle with (everything), IBM with Red Hat or Broadcom with VMware.