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mark fearing said:

Completely agree. This is all about nothing. PLUS is the X-Box store and the Playstation store and any number of other stores now illegal too? How can Apple have a monopoly on Apple products? The reasoning to get here is tortured and stands a decent chance to be overturned. 

This is the Pandora's box that has been opened. Most of the malware found on iOS|iPadOS is on the devices that people stupidly "jailbroken", which is why every Cybersecurity Engineer has both jailbroken and rooted devices disallowed and blocking third party application stores from their organizations.

nubus said:

mike1 said:

I said this in an earlier post, but I hope there will be an option in settings to choose the app store as the only place from which to download.

Alternative app stores will only be available through App Store. You need to find the alternative store app, approve installation, add credit card details, and buy the apps. And those apps are still checked by Apple. You want some extra safety mechanism on top of those 4-5 steps?

To me that is enough protection. And as we have seen after 13 months in the EU - it really works.

The third party application stores will not verify the security of anything that they would host, and neither will Apple. Apple only verifies the applications distributed via the original App Store. That is part of the 15%/30% that application developers pay to ensure trust by the users. Third party application stores have been and always will result in failure due to the lack of checking the applications that are submitted.

SiTime said:

9secondkox2 said:

All this legislating from the bench will hopefully be dealt with before too long. In the meantime, it’s exposing these shady organizations (who make money from other being on their stores) as extortionists, only putting in work if they don’t pay to be in someone else’s store. 

It’s why I no longer have an Amazon subscription nor a Spotify one. It’s a matter of principle. Doesn’t alter my lifestyle at all. I’ve always found it healthier and have met lots of good people by always avoiding the card reader at the pump and the self-checkout at various retailers. Going to the human being at the register is the way to go. 

Apple Books are usually presented much nicer than kindle anyway. And Apple Music has inched closer to the old iTunes simplicity that Spotify copied to begin with. 

Apple does the same thing though, right? If I try to subscribe to Apple TV+ on my Fire TV, the message that pops-up says:

”How to Watch — In-app purchases aren’t allowed on this device. To watch here, you must have subscribed to Apple TV+ on an Apple device.”

Probably for the same reason that Amazon blocked in-app payments in the Kindle application. Of course having an Apple TV is so much better than a Fire TV.

Amazon could have always done this, they just did not care about the user experience only their profit margin.

DAalseth said:

I hope the BBC wins and nails Apple and Google to the wall. Quoting without attribution is simply theft. It’s not ok when AI scrapers do it, and it’s not ok when news aggregators do it, it’s not ok when a high school kid does it in a report. It’s just not ok. 

The BBC is using AI to generate the case and is delusional to think that Apple would not credit the source of any “news” article. I could see Google doing it. The BBC should lose, but given the corruption in the UK, I doubt that the case will be decided on facts.