Mac512user

done with it.

Apple of course can do whatever they want in their app store. Protect people from Epic games, and whatever else they are up to. Sure.

But it is monopolistic behavior to say, only Apple can provide software for the iPhone, the most popular platform on the planet. That's like saying, only Microsoft controls what goes on your Windows PC. Not cool, not OK, and not OK to get away with it.

I really do wonder why Epic doesn't make this argument, it makes a lot more sense than arguing against the terms and conditions that they signed up for themselves (huh?!???!)

Apple need to give up control of the app store / allow 3rd party app stores. Yes there'll be some BS happening, just like on Android but I feel like when I buy an iPhone, for example, then I own it. I am not renting it from Apple. I own all that silicon in all that neat packaging. And I can do whatever I want with my property. I want to run whatever I want on it.

And while my sympathy for Epic Games is rather limited, free app stores would also remove government control from the iPhone. Because right now the government is really controlling the app store. Anything the government doesn't like won't be on the app store. Doesn't matter if it's the Chinese government or the US government - same difference. If they don't like it, it's gone. 

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