iOS App distribution = Walmart product distribution // Walmart and Apple have monopolies on this.
App distribution = product distribution // Walmart and Apple do not have monopolies on this.
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App distribution = product distribution // Walmart and Apple do not have monopolies on this.
Steam tried the same thing. They got smacked as they tried to argue the license and renting agreement. And boom we got the right to return games.
Sure and they will be free to leave. Apple can’t demand governments change laws for them.
I’m sorry but the video isn’t klick bate, there is zero technological reasons for an NVME disk shouldn’t be swappable or the ability to install a new disk.
It’s just a software lock. Same way you couldn’t swap iPhone screens before apple backpedals.
That is completely irrelevant in the eyes of the law. It’s quite literally a reformed guideline.
Why should I change that? Stores are fred to offer free return policies, and almost every store have a 30-90 day return policy but excludes phones. The law only say online purchases grants you 14 day return rights. Or 6 months if something is wrong with it.
Sure, but it’s because it doesn’t mean anything. Steam tried and was forced to allow recognize steam games are purchases. That is why I can legally buy steam games from Argentina if I want and install it with a VPN and steam can’t do anything against me, my account or any EU member as it would be to steeling my property
Or they are likely to remove the tab. Millions of users were happily using the keyboard that was on Apple laptops up to 2015, so what did Apple do? Replace it with the defective butterfly keyboard.
That wrong
App distribution = product distribution // Walmart do not have monopolies on this.
App distribution = product distribution // Apple have monopoly on iOS app distribution.
App distribution = product distribution // Apple, google and Microsoft do not have a monopoly on this on Mac, android or windows systems
Walmart products sold in other stores aren’t incompatible with each other. Apps on iOS and android are incompatible with each other. It doesn’t matter if you can purchase an android app, it can’t be installed or run on iOS even if you jailbreak it.
Don't choose iOS if you don't want only one place or iOS Apps.
You're right, you can buy PlayStation games from many places, but Sony will still get their 30% cut, they still have to be approved and tested by Sony. No one can just make a game and stick it on a Walmart shelf, it has to be licensed by Sony for it to even load on a PlayStation. So if the argument is that there should be side loading, but Apple Still has to test, approve, and make sure the Apps follow their guidelines, and Apple Still gets its full cut, then I would be ok with that. But I don't see any benefit to that.
They had no data on how crappy the crappy the keyboard was when they created it, they thought people would love the thinner device, but then after getting tons of data on people hating the keyboard, they changed it back, and made the device thicker.
They sold it for three years, long after knowing it was crap. A greedy money grab decision at the expense of their customers (victims).
Apps on the AppStore have the exact same limitations as a side loaded app, they run in the exact same sandbox. Only difference is apple can deny them from using the AppStore or deny apps using special OS APIs from being on the store. A side loaded app is the same, just without apple as the pedantic quality control
Or arbitrarily is banned by apple. Little snitch is a great program, and with side loading we could use it.
You can use cydia impactor to install any app without root access. It just signs the app with a valid developer ID but outside the store
Look, like I said very early on, I really think there is only one reasonable solution: allow multiple app stores, but every app store has to conform to a singular security framework. That way, when you click on the App Store button, you see access to multiple app stores.
Not you, your government. Such a glaring double-standard here. Stores? Meh, they can do what they want (even if it "hurts" the customer by refusing returns of brand new devices). Apple? YOU MUST DO WHAT WE SAY OR ELSE!!
smh...
It takes more than three years to design a new product, and how is it a money grab? Was the more complicated keyboard cheaper for them to make? Was the loss of sales due to the bad keyboard making them more money?
They knew the product was faulty, ignored complaints from users, blamed users for causing the problem by eating over the keyboard etc. Charged about $ 700 to replace a faulty one. Typical Apple, never say they made a mistake and do sweet FA until they get enough bad press or lawsuits. The fact they later reluctantly brought out a butterfly keyboard repair program was their usual sleazy way of admitting guilt long after the fact. People can forgive mistakes if the company admits it early on and apologizes. Cook and his company never does this.
You are conflating running a successful 3 trillion dollar company and morally good actions or consumer friendly actions.
And get sued again and again and pay and pay and risk a shutdown once EU get pissed off.
I go even further and call out for jailing the CEO’s of such abusive companies which clearly tries to bend and ignore the law.
There’s no data I can find for Sony, but Microsoft Generally have a 5% cut of sales outside their store.
The benefit is we could get a really good online store to browse iOS games only or apps overall. Now we don’t have iTunes so People are ether forced to google after apps or YouTube it as it’s extraordinary user hostile to be forced to look on the iPhone only for apps
One thing we can agree on. That earning money and running a business is not synonymous with morally good
Selling locked down or reparable products are a business decision can be a morally good or bad thing
Nope, here you can read to what a simple Software update can lead…That's just silly.
Put all these filthy scumbags in jail, and they will think twice before acting abusive against the law again.
Same for the VW scumbags, they fully deserved…
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