Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store

• theherk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.

  That was comparing desktop OS to mobile OS, which is why the person to which I replied pointed out this is different than macOS.

  On your second point, neither is iOS a workstation, and one could just as easily say, “The only thing you’d want to install is mobile apps.” Okay but the problem isn’t the type of apps, it is the source of those apps. So either you should be able to get application / games from multiple sources or not.

  If you think those initial downvotes were due to some pedantic distinction about workstation, and not because somebody indirectly implied that Microsoft and Apple were on similar footing in this regard, fine.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That was comparing desktop OS to mobile OS

    It doesn’t matter. The point stands.

    neither is iOS a workstation

    Yes it is. It’s a general computing device. The XBOX is a dedicated gaming device.

    Okay but the problem isn’t the type of apps

    As far as this discussion, it very much is.

    So either you should be able to get application / games from multiple sources or not.

    You absolutely should be able to on all platforms, but some are more important than others and comparing them like they’re all the same makes no sense.

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    • theherk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Sure, Jan.

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