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> If you don't believe 30% is reasonable in return for access to that market, you can choose not to develop for that market Well, the counter to this is that i
by stale2002 8y ago
> If you don't believe 30% is reasonable in return for access to that market, you can choose not to develop for that market
Well, the counter to this is that it is not Apple's userbase. Apple doesn't own those phones. Consumers do, because those consumers paid for them.
The alternative isn't "don't build for this market". The alternative is doing exactly what these companies are doing, and building their own marketplace/appstore/distributing on their own website like Fortnite does.
People have the right to install whatever they want of phones that they own.
- throwawaymath 8y agoI think this is more complex than what you've said in your last sentence. Theoretically you can literally run whatever software you'd like on hardware you've purchased. But I don't think operating system developers targeting that hardware have an intrinsic obligation to sanction arbitrary software installation.