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European Commission grills Apple and Google on app store risks and ad practices
There is absolutely a limit. It’s called the free market. The government does nothing to help. Every industry in which they get involved ends up being worse.ailooped said:I am not a big fan of Apple app store proliferation of in-app purchases, nor the fact that the practice matured and was popularized on it.
Every little app these days is trying to become a "subscription" app... I do not want to pay a subscription for a simple 3d scanning app... This is ridiculous and please regulate this. The value added for a sub service should be substantial before it is allowed.
These are things that consumer protection legislation needs to address.
Bigger things... How about stop allowing huge multinational tech companies and startups wreck and grab entire industries worldwide??? Google took over advertisement ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE! Fuck that...
Now openAi/google/adobe want to take over industrial art/creative writing etc... F*^@ that!
Airbnb is messing up the global housing market with short term rentals.. Uber is fucking over taxi companies wherever they are available, and the fare is WORSE than before with taxies.
See the trend here? Disrupt an existing market with superior tech and ease of use... Throw tons and tons of "free" money to lure in people thinking it is cheaper and better, after market is saturated and the "old world industry" out competed, raise prices and gouge consumers. THIS is what EU and every sensible country should be regulating... And yes, that does include Apple.
IF regulation is non existent, do you really think there is a limit to how much companies are willing to unfairly gouge customers? I highly doubt it. If history or current reality around the globe is any judge, companies (..and certain countries) do not care if people are starving or houseless due to excessive cost of living...
This is the reason why some companies have bigger coffers than most countries. They are taking over entire industries/sectors of business across the globe...
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European Commission grills Apple and Google on app store risks and ad practices
The government doesn’t gladly help anyone. In fact, even the government trying to help ends up in disaster. The government needs to stick to the military, law-enforcement, and the judicial system, perhaps with some basic regulation thrown in. They can’t do anything else. That’s been proven for hundreds of years.CheeseFreeze said:
The same government you gladly see help you when you need it. You can’t have it both ways.22july2013 said:"The government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan -
Beeper Mini is down for 5% of users, but there's a fix
For anyone claiming that “they’re doing just fine”, just wait. Apple is trying to let them down easily. They don’t really consider them a threat. At least not right now. But if they are unable to block their clear theft of intellectual property, they will do it legally. I don’t care if they’re using apples servers or not, they are obviously copying the user interface. That’s the entire point of the app. Beeper mini is going to go down in flames.
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European Commission grills Apple and Google on app store risks and ad practices
Show me the company and I’ll show you the crime. That appears to be the European Commission’s motto. I would say these people are so grossly incompetent and predictable, excepted government that is so grossly incompetent and predictable. First, there is enormous pressure to allow third-party app stores. Then they want to investigate the existing App Store for vulnerabilities that they don’t even understand.
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Android iMessage app Beeper mini isn't working, and Apple probably killed it
Here I was thinking that it would result in legal action. Instead, they just flipped the switch and said “how about DEM apples?” 🤣🤣🤣
