And it’s MY $1000 that I used to buy MY iPhone. And since it’s MY iPhone I’d like to do whatever the HELL I want with it but can’t because Apple is a control, censor freak and a greedy company that wants to charge for EVERYTHING, and allowing anything that doesn’t come from their store is a loss of revenue. MONOPOLY!
And no, I’m not buying Android, so shove the rhetoric right up where the sun don’t shine.
Are you not aware that you CAN run anything you want on your iPhone? Just get a developer license. I have one. It cost $99 from Apple. I can compile, install and run under iOS anything I create. I can even install and run anything that anyone else creates and shares with me (although I'm somewhat unclear if that's against the license agreement, it may only be against the agreement if you charge for it.) I think there's even another situation where I *might* agree with you: perhaps Apple should let you install and boot your own OS on the device. That way you can also run anything you want, excluding iOS. What I won't agree with is your wish that Apple must modify its iOS license agreement to be whatever you want it to be. Microsoft has license agreements; Google has license agreements - do you also want those companies to throw them away? Microsoft even charges for their OS! Do you want Microsoft to give it to you for free too? Software wouldn't be as advanced as it is today with license agreements or profits. I'm being nice to you - and constructive - please be nice back.
See, I’m not dumb enough to pay $99 just so that I can run whatever I please on my phone. A phone that I spent my hard earned money on (all $1000+ of it). I love the security and stability, but my other Apple devices don’t have any sort of sensitive data on it so I wouldn’t mind installing “suspect” apps for entertainment purposes.
No good deed goes unpunished. How about Apple simply dropping the gracious hosting of free apps?
Exactly. A large number of apps are a dollar or free. Apple could have charged a hosting fee for free apps, but they didn't. Apple could also show that before the iPhone, the price of apps was much higher, and the iPhone's app store actually lowered the cost of entry and the price to consumers. I remember Blackberry apps costing around $3-5, or even more, for a lot less functionality and safety.
I suppose at some point, Apple mayhave to open up the iPhone to 3rd party stores. Or allow Netflix and Spotify to use the Apple app store, but charge them a fixed fee for hosting, rather than a 15% cut of the subscription revenue.
However, I will never use a third party app store, since I wouldn't trust it to be safe. And the idea that the app store causes higher prices is ridiculous!
That rant being said, I don't understand why people are harping on Apple having a "monopoly" with the App Store. Of course it's a monopoly. It's THEIR phone and THEIR App Store. I really believe the people complaining and raising a stink are app developers that feel they should get a bigger piece of the Apple pie, and not everyday Joe-iPhone-User. They're just disguising themselves as regular users.
And it’s MY $1000 that I used to buy MY iPhone. And since it’s MY iPhone I’d like to do whatever the HELL I want with it but can’t because Apple is a control, censor freak and a greedy company that wants to charge for EVERYTHING, and allowing anything that doesn’t come from their store is a loss of revenue. MONOPOLY!
And no, I’m not buying Android, so shove the rhetoric right up where the sun don’t shine.
Speaking of "up where the sun don't shine", you definitely are talking from there when you say you own an iPhone.
So because my way of thinking doesn’t fit yours, or because I’m not a die-hard fanboy of everything Apple does, I must be an Android lover, right? I’m highly critical, not broke...or a dumbass like you.
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