@daringfireball I don’t know why anyone thought EU mandating alternative stores would mean free access to Apple’s APIs.
If the EU mandates open access to Apple API it’d amount to imminent domain of copyright IP.
Now tell me how you apply that logic to MacOS.
Also, people have already paid for that API: iPhones are not free.
@dmitriid @daringfireball Hi Dimitri!
We’ve been over this before and I don’t see the point in arguing with you again.
I’d discuss this again if you can review our prior conversation and can articulate my position back to me.
Have a great day.
We may have, but I'll reiterate:
- Apple needs developers as much as, if not more than, developers need Apple. iPhone is nothing without the millions of apps Apple keeps boasting about.
- iPhones are not free. Every person that buys an iPhone pays for the development and access to the APIs that power it. It's no different from Apple giving "free access" to the APIs in MacOS
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@delric @pixelscience @daringfireball
The "obvious choice" for people who don't remember history, at all. The original iPhone especially was a far from obvious choice.
And to deny the fact that apps made iPhone what it is today is to deny reality.
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