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Comment on EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores
seedd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The only third party store that should be allowed is fdroid (or fios ig), everything else that is sideloaded is either malware or pirated apps
muh_entitlement@lemmy.world 5 months ago
seedd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ofc i do, i won’t have jackshit in my jellyfin without it. But apps, nah…cracked apps are full of shit
Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And as they are opened up major companies can go to them for better deals allowing for the free market to work as intended.
seedd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Android has sideloading, does google take a lower cut than apple? No. Even with sideloading allowed, 99% people don’t use it, majority android users probably don’t even know about this thing called apks.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The option is there. Windows has an open platform, do you buy all your software and games through Microsoft or do you use the developer’s website and third party launchers that have to compete on experience pricing?
Whether they are used or not doesn’t matter, the first step is opening it up. And there are multiple apps that I get through alternative stores than the play store and it benefits the developer more so I don’t really care what the other 99% are up to.
seedd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thats because windows didn’t have a store before 8, so everybody is used to downloading exe. And even today there isn’t much on windows store. And i am not agaisnt sideloading, but there should be some safety measures too (maybe thats why windows needs antivirus?) to idiot proof sideloading. F droid is a great example of what sideloading should be.
Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Software on Windows is still a bit of a mess compared to most other platforms though. The fact that it is normalized to download and install things from the various developer websites, without much verification and without permissions/restrictions on what the apps can do is not a plus in my mind. winget has been helpful in managing the installation and updating of things though.
Everyone having their own launcher is also not great, especially since they are not all created equal with respect to features, stability, and resource consumption. Games have had this problem for some time with EA, Ubisoft, Epic, etc having their own launchers. As like what happened to games, I don’t think it will necessarily end up with more freedom to buy the apps from the store you want, but rather you’ll be forced to download a store/launcher based on the whims of the app publisher. Some may publish to multiple stores but I don’t expect all to.
If the mandate to open the platform up to more stores came with some kind of requirement that apps be available across multiple stores so that the stores actually had to be competitive on their own features, not app exclusivity, I would be more inclined to support having more stores.
Petter1@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yea, because with cydia zebra and sileo, you can only install malware /s
seedd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
thats not what i meant, i meant that it just opens the door for malware. And even with android, how many people actually install apks? Not many, bcs everything is there on the play store.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 5 months ago
seedd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You just have to open the apk and click install, how is thay hard?
halva@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
oh woes.
poopkins@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This community encourages such incredible depth and discourse. Keep it up, folks!