EsquireCats

Literally these people: Can we have all the benefits of the App Store while simultaneously contributing nothing to the App Store.

wizard69 said:

EsquireCats said:

 Healthcare, student loans, lethal gun/police violence, disinformation and the resulting civil unrest...  so lawmakers give us... a review of Netflix?

None fo these things you have listed are real problems.    Healthcare, Student loans for example are mostly of interest to people to lazy to work for a living.   The imagined gun problem is more about the lack of effective police violence against the people that can't become viable members of society.   In other words we really need a death penalty in the USA that addresses people that don't want to work within the system.   Civil unrest is due mostly to people that don't want to work within the system.  

So Yeah your attempt to draw attention away form a real issue, the harm big companies are doing ot the average American with scam issues is simply not valid.   These monopolies are harming far more people than anything  your listed.

Delusional. 

Side loading an app designed to run with the current generation APIs is not the same as offering an alternative app store that needs to support legacy code and hardware into perpetuity.

At the moment when Apple makes changes to the system, developers are given a countdown to update their apps, however this is not seen as harmful as it affects Apple’s own app store. Now should Apple levy this kind of change to a 3rd party app store it would be seen as deliberately harming competition. Just look at Steam on macOS, it’s a mess of incompatible mac software and that has absolutely nothing to do with macOS’s ability to run software from any vendor. 

For similar reasons the App Store can’t be separated and run by a separate company, the hardware and system are tied together. iOS is not Windows nor macOS, the two work in lockstep. 

I feel like lawmakers need to do a bit of soul searching here, because the worst offenders got there by lobbying. Which will still be an issue when any new legislation is introduced. Sometimes these efforts just become opportunities to legally entrench the problem they were aiming to resolve. Government involvement can lead to harm in competition: we all saw how iBooks went down, giving Amazon more power and an even more damaging position, against what was a very mild offering from Apple.

And not to strike a tone in the image of 'whataboutism', but in the grand scheme of things that are harming Americans (and there's plenty) - these actions are so disproportionate with other forms of harm. Healthcare, student loans, lethal gun/police violence, disinformation and the resulting civil unrest...  so lawmakers give us... a review of Netflix?

Some new ways to wrangle the utterly massive set of available emojis would be welcome. E.g. How about:

• the ability to pre-select a skin/hair/gender combination for all emojis that offer it, while also giving the option to hide the other types (available again with a long press)
• the ability to remove/hide emojis from the picker