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darkvader said:

dewme said:

Where this headed is that more and more apps will be free to download with a subscription managed totally out-of-band by the app developer. This is exactly how Microsoft Office 365 (and other subscription based apps) works today and it’s really not a big deal.

From a consumer perspective it just means that you’re having to deal with a separate payment system for all of these out-of-band subscriptions and you’re handing out your personal and financial information to many more people. In other words, consumers are taking on more complexity, inconvenience, and privacy/security risk so that App developers can skim a little more profit from you. Yes, they can be nice and pass along some of their savings to you, but they don’t have to. They can charge whatever they want and with addictive games the sky is the limit.

In the end, these out-of-band app subscription payment services aren’t screwing Apple nearly as much as they are screwing their customers. 

And all because Apple got far too greedy.  A 30% cut is absolutely insane.

Not that this is how I think the situation should be resolved.  Regulators need to end Apple's app store monopoly.  It's MY iPhone, not Apple's iPhone, and I should be able to install apps from any source of MY choosing.  Apple's app store monopoly needs to end.

bloggerblog said:

sflocal said:

There needs to be serious consequences to companies (and their CEO's) that have a blatant disregard to the security of its users.  Security is a never-ending cost of doing business and it's obvious many don't do it.  It's almost to the point where it happens so often that people are now just accepting it as the status-quo which is the worst thing to do.

Remember the Equifax data breach when they 'failed' to update Apache Struts and their managers sold their stock right before the breach was revealed and all they got was a slap on the wrist. It makes me wonder if these 'breaches' are really breaches.

Dead_Pool said:

Both companies should shut down their Korean app stores until the law is repealed. Let the Korean government create their own devices and app stores just the way they want them, rather than forcing private industry to bow to their politically-motivated whims. 

lkrupp said:

elijahg said:

Come on Apple. If there is a hole in an app that's bad enough, but having an exploitable hole in an app that allows a further exploit in that app's sandbox, enabling an attacker to escape the sandbox points to some very shoddy code practises. Someone needs to take a good hard look at their unit tests and make them much more robust. Sanitising input is a solved problem, to have repeated issues as a result of specially crafted data is really quite atrocious.

Nothing burger from the peanut gallery. You can’t spell and apparently can’t turn on a spell checker but you claim to be some software coding expert?