georgie01

aderutter said:

…I hope that Apple adds a new app-store rule stating that apps that use in-app purchases other than Apple-Pay cannot be free to download.

I totally agree. If the developer can steer the user away from the App Store for payment then Apple could be used simply for their own resources and expertise in developing the App Store and the iPhone/iPad ecosystem and get no money for it.

It’s insane to me to read some comments on this issue. People actually believe they’re entitled to apps on their devices in however way they want them—yet they contributed exactly zero to developing and manufacturing those devices and don’t even legally own any of the system software or apps they have on those devices.

canukstorm said:

So you think you're smarter than the judge? Go apply for her job.  Apple's a company, not your friend.  Sooner you realize that the better your life will be.  Apple got exactly what it deserved.

So you believe that Apple should be required to allow developers to put their apps on Apple’s App Store for free and users download them for free and the developer can charge for the app outside of Apple’s App Store. So then Apple makes no money for providing a really easy place for the developers to distribute apps while spending money for the resources and infrastructure to maintain a secure App Store?

Talk about a spoiled and entitled attitude…

It’s really depressing that developers (and users) have gotten to the point where they believe a creator of a device can have a wrongful ‘monopoly’ over the device they created, as if somehow we are entitled to have that device and that the creator is legally obligated to make it work how we want it to.

I’ve been a developer for 20 years and I very clearly remember when there was no App Store and the only way to get software to users was far more complicated and required far more resources. Apple’s App Store is so easy because of what Apple has created, and we are not entitled to any of it.

Many of these ‘woke’ ideas come from a naive view of the world. Many of us feel so entitled due to the immense successes of Western ideas.

StrangeDays said:

Kuyangkoh said:

lkrupp said:

9secondkox2 said:

Good 

the whole thing is wrong. 

“Oh. There’s a new disease. So we must track you. And we need to know your movements as well as those of your contacts.” RIIIIGHT… that’s going to end well… 

Forget HIPAA. Forget privacy. Not to mention potential abuse of something like this. 

This kind of thing did not happen with HIV/AIDS, note the flu, nor pneumonia, nor anything. All of a sudden, a née deadly disease is out and we are supposed to happily forget our humanity so that people who tell us a different story every day can monitor us like lab rats. 

No thanks. 

Yeah, right, whatever. Except that that attitude most likely killed tens of thousands of people who might have survived otherwise. Unless, of course, the pandemic is a hoax? Is it a hoax? Did Trump win the election?

I thought Trump acknowledged the Chinese virus first and he was belittled as racist?? When he cancels flights….and whats got to do the apps w elections

Yes he was, because only a fucking idiot calls a global pandemic not by its name, but by "Chinese Virus" and "Kung Flu". Maybe you didn't hear about the rash of attacks on Chinese-Americans as a result of this buffoonery.

Except that’s how various virus’s have been named throughout history. It’s only the ‘woke’ crowd and those with Trump Derangement Syndrome who decided it was somehow a xenophobic name for it.

I’m no fan of Trump, but fortunately I didn’t allow myself to reach the stage of hating him so much that my own sensibility went out the window.