helloworld7Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options
I’m never giving epic games a dime, I can assure you if that.
This is one of those things many people seem to think will be a win but will actually suck once every app is able to charge you directly.
Nobody forbids Apple from having a “vetted certified blessed” category where only apps that don’t are accepted. If you mean hygiene. If you mean that anal control from Apple is good, then I disagree.
There is no pattern of facts where “Apple gets to collect a tax on any transaction you make on your iPhone” is a good thing
what is wrong with app being able to charge you directly? Yes Epic is a greedy corporate entity like any other, but apple’s arbritary resctrions are comical and shouldn’t ever have existed, they outragous and outright ridiculous, there is a clear conflict of interest of an App store which in theory should try to attract apps with smaller cuts, but in case of Apple since they control both the OS and store they simply force a monopoly, so that they don’t to improve their store, all corporate entities eventually tend towards monopolistic anti competitive behavior that restrict market freedom in a attempt to not need to compete, usually through exploitting their position in one field, like OS, to force a their subpar product of a different field onto consumers, like a shit app store, Apple does want competition, they fear it, that’s why they use so many scummy anti competitive tactics, the entire idea of restriction an OS to only one source of apps is insane and monopolistic by nature.
ZakI’m disappointed the court didn’t strike down the app store monopoly itself. The iPhone might actually appeal to me with unlimited sideloading.
I wouldn’t settle for anything less than being able to jailbreak it, repair it, and sideload whatever I want as I please. Too bad critical thinking seems non existent, Apple’s business practices and of the whole big tech undermines the ideas and principles of any capitalists, yet those capitalists don’t even notice it, the double standards are impressive.
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Nothing we’ll convince me apple needs 30% for subscriptions purchased from iOS or IAP.
Fight back deez nuts.
However, this U.S. court order is inconsistent with the Apple App Store business standards
This is terrible writing. The court order is inconsistent with the Apple App Store business standards? No. The court ruled that Apple’s business practices were illegal.
USA’s press has a corporate bias, because you know, we need to care about the corporations, as if they had feelings, and not the exploitive entities that they are.
This doesn’t seem to be the mainstream press, but a small tech blog. Mainstream American news outlets have been far more straightforward in their coverage of this case.
Furthermore, this case was a fight between two large corporations; there’s no little guy here. Smaller developers may benefit from the outcome though.
I will never support Apple because of their anti-consuner practices.
Die apple. All your innovation and vision died with Steve Jobs, now you’re a shambling corpse infecting everything you touch. Just die, it’s time…
Yep crApple is the one pushing for the shorter SSL certificate length too. Their just adding headaches to everyone’s lives for no good reason.
Shorter SSL certificate length means more security
Even Mozilla’s pushing it
Do you have a link to an explanation of this? I am curious to learn more
I’m going on what I heard from Security Now but it is my understanding that apple was the only one pushing for this and the others just voted to approve even though apple was never able to present a convincing argument for why it needed to be shortened.
Yeah and having a 512 character password is more secure than 52.
Apple’s ARM SoC’s were some of their best work yet in my view.
Oh yeah, render most of their already small software library incompatible for a 50% performance boost. It’s a sizable boost for sure, but not exactly looking at the big picture…
But it didn’t though. Old apps work just fine. There are plenty of reasons to complain about Apple - but the way they changed architecture twice and did so with impressive backwards compatibility both times is not one of them.
Officially, it didn’t, but actually it did. Officially it was the OS updates that made everything incompatible (and it did make more than half of my steam library incompatible) but it was those OS updates that were needed to support the new arm hardware.
So look at it however you want I guess, but there are a bunch of 5-15 year old games that run just fine on my windows PC, but no longer launch on my iMac. That’s not impressive backwards compatibility.
Do they run on Windows ARM?
I wouldn’t know, I wasn’t forced to go ARM when I built that machine.
Steve Jobs was an old quack business man. he didn’t invent shit.
Sure, he wasn’t an engineer, so no Jobs never personally “invented” anything. But Jobs at least knew what was good and what was shit when he saw it. Under Tim Cook, Apple just keeps putting out shitty unimaginative products, Cook is allowing Apple to stagnate, a dangerous thing to do when they have under 10% market share.
Gotta protect that illegal, anticompetitive trust at all costs.