Apple should be forced to allow the owners of Apple devices to install whatever they want. But they’ve created an illegal, monopolistic, anti-competitive trust and they are abusing it to the full extent of their power.
Forcing Apple to allow things on the app store is a remedy for Apple’s wrongdoing the same way as forcing Jason Voorhees to give his victims bandaids would be a remedy. The wrongdoing should not be tolerated in the first place.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Apple wouldn’t have to if they didn’t artificially prevent competitor app stores from being installed on iPhones. An app store is just software that tells the OS to install another piece of software. They are not complicated or hard to code, Apple just installs one with your phone and prevents any apps from being installed except through it, and then they refuse to host other app stores.
This is them using their market share in phones, to avoid competing fairly with third party software app stores like Steam.
They claim they have to install every thing through their app store for security reasons and there’s no possible other way to build it (horseshit), so rightfully then, to prevent them from illegally tieing two unrelated products together, they have to host Epic on the App Store.
And let me be frank. Your assertion that Epic is not a good company and Apple is not a good company, in the same breadth, is false equivalency horseshit.
Apple charges mafia 30% of all software REVENUE in addition to their other anti-competitive bullshit. They use their dominant platform position to be an absolute drag on the economy at large.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
Have you actually looked at the iPhones market share? They don’t have a monopoly, far from it - Android is the market leader in phone OS’s by a country mile.
Not at all. Epic have rules on what games can be hosted on the Epic Game Store too btw.
Apple don’t have a dominant platform position. They do not have a monopoly. They do not have to allow competitors to operate on their platform.
Your entire post is based on an incorrect premise.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
57% US market share. This decision has no bearing on any other market, and to expand the view to the global market is disingenuous.
I can install Steam if Epic doesn’t allow a game I want on it, or install it directly from the developer. You don’t have that option with the iPhone.
Yes, they do. Especially when that platform is synonymous with 57% of the hardware in use.
Ironic.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I have maybe a handful of people on lemmy tagged, if that. That means, those where the most stupid, ignorant, obnoxious, disingenious people, or otherwise not worth of serious discourse, to the point i felt it necessary to remember that with a tag.
Now this guy i have put down as “that weird guy who really loves corporations”. Make of that what you want for your conversation.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
So well outside of monopoly territory. Thanks for checking :)
And you’re not entitled to that option. It’s apples product and they don’t have to build ways for competitors to eat their lunch, nor should they. If you want a platform that allows you to install stuff from any source, get an android phone or one that does.
Why? 57% is far, FAR, below where anti-competition and anti-trust rules come in to play.
Says the guy who thinks 57% market share in a market with 2 players is a monopoly lol.