Who deserve access to Apple’s customers, (who pay for apps in large part because Apple made them feel safe doing so after the cesspool of viruses on open OSes in the 1990s and early 2000s), using Apple’s property, for free, without following Apple’s (with one or two exceptions, entirely reasonable) rules, because an organization that thinks mandating encryption back doors is a good idea says so.
Not really other than you seem to think moms are simpletons.
Because it’s one out of only two companies that operate mobile operating systems. It’s really not rocket science to understand. If you don’t agree fine, but you keep posing simple questions with obvious answers. Say something of substance!
Viruses are irrelevant on mobile OS’s. they can’t exist outside of their own sandbox.
And if your kid accidentally signs up for one on the AppStore, you can easily cancel it. Best of luck if it’s on an alternate store. Thanks E.U.! Always thinking of users and customer experience first!
An alternative App Store can choose to do without such scams and not approve such apps in the first place.
It's one of hundreds of companies that provide smartphone services. You're defining your "market" to fit your definition as am I doing the same. But there is no case law on this that finds Apple "anticompetitive" in this regard.
Citation or your opinion? It's easy to switch, of course with any consumer product one has to weigh the pros and cons.
So now it's not about overall profits or units it's about streaming services? Got it.
That doesn't mean apple is a public utility because you believe they should be forced to give their services away.
If it did that, Apple would lose.
No, it's exactly objectively the truth. Maybe the exact percentage is off, but it's in the neighborhood. That is what marketshare is. Not apple profits/total profits in the smartphone sector.
Ok.
Was easy when I asked Setapp for a refund. The problem with what you’re suggesting is you’re merely speculating and assuming, baselessly, that Apple are the only honest company in existence.
Thanks for the accusation, aimed at everyone who disagrees with you about it? Nice. Elegant way to 'be right'. Well done you.
Yeah but we're talking specifically about OS's, app stores and restrictions within the Apple ecosystem, not just random unspecified smartphone services for non iOS devices.
all those "useful" apps... if only there was an OS that let you install whatever you wanted... if you really couldnt live without that vaping app then surely by now you'd have moved to Android
No, I’m noting there are lots of bad actors out there.
The biggest mistake pro-DMA people make is assuming that Apple is just doing this for the profit and don’t actually believe their model is absolutely better for the vast majority of the users.
Again, iOS is 27% of the market in the EU. Plenty of competition, and in any sane world, nowhere near the level to require regulation given the market CLEARLY prefers their competitor. But Spotify wants to use iOS for free, and the EU is unable to consider second-order effects of its legislation, so here we are.
Vaping is perfectly legal and a recommended way to help quit actual smoking. Thats not remotely unsavoury.
Stated with the superiority I have come to expect from people that seem to assume they just know everything, and only what they state is reality.
Good one. Thats a new one! Good thinking, I assume you thought of it all by yourself?
well it would let you do all the things you say you cant live without... so why torture yourself (or us) and just move over. enjoy
I guess if we are taking hypotheticals…where is it said that because two companies have agreements the agreements are illegal?
There is a grey area which you are not acknowledging. And that is that at some point in time every major company has a ruling against them. It makes me chuckle that that one ruling out of nine was found for and that is the only ammunition.
One never knows how things will turn out.
Do you have some case law that supports your assertion? And by the way true duopolies like visa vs Mastercard or Pepsi vs coke are not really problematic unless they collude in some fashion. The so-called operating system duopoly, iOS vs android isn’t really an issue as iOS doesn’t collude with android.