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  • Developers cautiously welcome prospect of third-party app stores

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    xbit said:
    As an app developer and a customer, I’m worried about fragmentation. I don’t want to submit my app to several app stores (with differing rules) and I don’t want to see Epic Games ruin the ecosystem with exclusives.
    I don’t think you’ll have to worry about that. The MS store will be for MS stuff only. The Adobe store will be for Adobe stuff only. The Epic store will be for Epic stuff only. I just have a (totally unsubstantiated) hunch that a lot of companies will have a closed store for their own stuff and not let anyone else in. An interesting twist on the Walled Garden thing they have been whining about for ages. 

    However I also had another thought. Suppose you are a typical owner of a new iPhone or iPad. Not one of us who are fairly technically savvy, but a regular person for whom the device works and that’s all they care about. Now you need an App to do something, Where are you going to go? Are you going to scour the press, find out who makes an app to do something, then locate the store online, set up an account, with an ID, another password you’ll never remember, (unless you use your default of Password!123 that you use for everything else), and your credit card information, and buy it from them, or are you going to open the AppStore that’s already on your device, with password and payment all set up?

    I have a hunch that after a fairly short time, most developers will realize that a large majority of users won’t want the hassle of leaving the AppStore. A lot of the third party stores are likely to close in fairly short order, and after a bit of an exodus, there may well be a move back into the AppStore because it’s the best place to be. 

    The rent may be cheaper a few blocks away, but if you aren’t on Bourbon Street, you won’t get anything from Mardi Gras. 

    (This is a big change from my opinion of even a month ago. Last fall I thought alternative AppStores would result in a huge hollowing out of Apple’s marketplace as everyone ran for the exits to move to alternative stores or set up their own. Now I’m not so sure about that.)
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  • Foxconn forcing sick workers to stay on iPhone production lines

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    Wouldn’t surprise me. I’ve talked to several people both online and off saying that factory managers here in North America are pressuring their staff to work if their symptoms “aren’t too bad”. This isn’t just a Foxconn thing.

    waveparticle said:
    There are two implicitly divergent thoughts on how to fight the spread of covid. On the ultra left the thought is to prevent the deaths, the zero covid policy is the most extreme that it tries to completely eliminate the spread brutally. On the ultra right the thought is to let the covid spread unrestricted until a herd immunity is achieved. This thought is based on the acknowledge that the death rate of Omicron is very low except maybe the elderly or people with underlying health problems. And the is Darwinism. 
    The trouble is both schools of thought are overly simplistic. Zero Tolerance is unsustainable. But the idea that it doesn’t kill too many and those that it does don’t really matter because they’re old or sick anyway, is indefensible. The overwhelming majority understand though that our response must be somewhere in the middle. Vaccines, masks, and caution enough to keep it under control, while we get on with our lives. 
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  • Amazon replaces MacBook Pro order with dog food

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    At least he got real dog food, probably.
    I stopped buying from Amazon after a number of items that either were not the quality as advertised, not the brand it said, or were just knock-offs with bogus brans name decals. I just don’t trust them.
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  • Apple issues watchOS 9.2 update for Apple Watch

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    Not sure why but the watch in the picture accompanying this story looks huge. 
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  • Apple preparing for third-party app stores by 2024

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    xyzzy-xxx said:
    Since nobody is forced to use a third party App Store this is a good thing. Personally I believe that iOS (and iPadOS) are much more important for security than the App Store and that the App Store is more about policy (and money).
    The problem is that we will have no choice. Want Adobe or MS software? Use their store. Want games from any of the big companies? Use their store. Want games from small developers? Plan on loading the app for some warehouse AppStore that charges really low commissions. There will be a flight from Apple’s AppStore and we all will have a full page of different AppStore apps. Little of what we want, other than Apple’s own software will be available on Apple’s store. 
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