Your comment makes no sense
If you don’t download 3rd party apps or app stores why would you have a problem on your device.
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If you don’t download 3rd party apps or app stores why would you have a problem on your device.
Because your device would be running a compromised app that would communicate with the app on my device, potentially opening my device for an attack.
One way to fix this for me is to stop using apps from developers that offer apps also on 3rd party stores, and simply use Apple apps which I mostly do anyway.
Just don’t download any scary app
It’s not that difficult.
If YOU want to download from the Apple App Store then just download from there
It’s not difficult.
Why would they target game consoles when nobody actually cares enough to do anything.
You either choose to ignore my concerns or you simply don’t get it. Ok
When you first get your iOS device does it come with all your apps on it NO
You have to download them from an App Store it’s your choice what App Store to download the apps from
It’s not difficult just use the Apple App Store
no Switch isnt a different device...
Nintendo have no desire to write a media centre app or allow one into their store. VLC have for years discussed doing it, The hardware is more than up to it. Same for ePub readers.
You have a very closed off games playing device because Nintendo control it that way.
Sony PSPs were much more open to extending the functionality.
because a game console has limited functions.
a phone carries lots of personal stuff. banking. photos. notes. health data. biometrics. all stuff that is targeted by hackers as it is valuable to blackmail people or steal their money.
what apps are you planning on downloading from an alt app store?
If all apps are available in every store... No problem.
If you have to install multiple stores for multiple apps, that absolutely sucks for consumers.
Consoles are primarily used for games, but also Netflix/Disney+ etc, YouTube, media playback, blu-ray... etc etc. Heck, even web browsing... So that comparison is bunk.
You're making stuff up and invent dangers and security implications that don't exist in the real world.
One doesn't need to download a dodgy app from a third-party store to communicate with apps on your device. You can just use any other computer - that's more easily compromised and has way better internet connection - than someone else's mobile phone. And you'd much rather do it in a way that's less unwieldy than through app on a consumer phone.
👉 In plain terms: You'd rather run an easy-to-use and dedicated exploit script on a Windows PC.
If the scenario you suggested had any real-world merit, we'd be able to witness it among in the competitive online gaming world (which not only provides a technical environment that makes bodes well for such attacks - but also harbours enough of a clientele that is motivated and capable enough for such attacks).
I imagine Epic wouldn't be opposed to getting their own App Store onto a Nintendo Switch where they can keep 100% of IAP revenue from games like Fortnite, as well as host other developers' apps and charge them a commission. All while free-riding on other companies' hardware. But PR-wise, it's probably easier to target Apple than go after Nintendo, since there seems to be this implicit understanding that a game's 30% cut is there to offset the game console being sold at a loss, and so nobody really questions it.
Also, what exactly is the difference between a console and a computer? For instance, the steam deck is primarily aimed at running games, but it can also be hooked to an external monitor and used for productivity.
In theory, there's also nothing stopping Microsoft from releasing Office for the Xbox and PS5 as well, since those support keyboard and mice. Software is software at the end of the day.
These hardware ist bought by people. Companies sold this hardware to their consumers. It is not the consumers' or the competition's fault that the business model only works when consumers also buys their games from the hardware company.
You sound in this case a little bit like the EU Commission who wants tech companies like Netflix or YouTube to pay a toll towards telcos for using their network to reach European consumers. As if the consumers didn't already paid for the network they are using to access YouTube or Netflix. That is an awful law.
That's the thing though. You bought the hardware, which means you are free to smash it with a hammer or toss it off a bridge. Or you could try to get Android running on it and side load the epic game store. It's up to you, because you own the hardware, but not the software that runs off it.
However, the software that runs on the hardware is still Apple's IP, and subject to their TOS. You don't own it; you merely license it from Apple. So Apple, being a vertically integrated company just like Nintendo, gets to set the rules at the time of sale and those rules are valid because they were made known to users at the time of sale.
The competition knows this very well. It was never a matter of right or wrong, but of power. I would recommend an article for anyone here with a few minutes to read it. It really puts all of this into the proper perspective.
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Can you distribute software outside the App Store for iOS or can't you do that? If you can't and the App Store is the only way, that is a monopoly. It is just a matter of fact. What is a matter of opinion is, if you think that Apple should have the right to have this monopoly or if you think it shouldn't exist.
A monopoly is a legal definition. Having said that Honda has a natural monopoly on accords, Costco has a natural monopoly on the Kirkland brand and apple has a natural monopoly on iPhones and the software therein.
I was responding to an early postwhat apps are you planning on downloading from an alt app store?
The difference is nobody wants office for Xbox or PlayStation because they are games consoles.
Epic have already mentioned consoles during the court case they are not interested in having epic store on them.
That is just the thing, should Apple or Nintendo to be allowed to do that? I mean, we have the discussion with manufactures like John Deere or the Polish train maker Newag who essentially disabled their train because a third party company made the inspections of the trainsets. I don't think we should give companies so much power over devices after the purchase. No matter if it is a train, a tractor, a game console, a smartphone, or a computer.
Might be one. But I'm an economist, so I'm using a an economic definition. Also if the legal definition doesn't classify the App Store as a monopoly the law is wrong.
Your use of "natural monopolies" is wrong. A natural monopoly is something like the phone line into your house or the electricity cable. Or the motorway from city A to city B. An App Store on a smartphone is not a natural monopoly. Honda and Costco have trademarks on things. Also not natural monopolies.
Just don’t install the apps then no complaints
You should be able to cite that. Saying that apple has a monopoly on (something) is different than saying apple is a monopoly….
Stop talking rubbish
My family have had androids for years & never gotten a virus & that system is open.
Just don’t download the app from non Apple App Store