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Whether they are right or wrong in doing this, both play store and App Store have too much power and govt/legal regulation of some kind is drastically needed.
by eklavya 8y ago
Whether they are right or wrong in doing this, both play store and App Store have too much power and govt/legal regulation of some kind is drastically needed.
- bigiain 8y agoTo be fair - they're using the background location feature in a way that sucks your battery flat much more quickly than normal. Apple are most likely to cop the flack for that, and given a few recent poor choices on Apple's part regarding making un-acknowledged changes to try and maintain appearance of good battery life, it's not _too_ surprising they're choosing to more heavily enforce rules in that area to reduce the number of complaints that hit _their_ support lines which are directly attributable (but not to the majority of iPhone owners) to people bending or breaking app store rules...
- eklavya 8y agoPlease don’t get me wrong. I am absolutely “for” all the quality assurance and privacy work done by Apple. But both the stores have become a very big part of digital life everywhere. Google and Apple as gatekeepers have a lot of power and decisions seem arbitrary and unfair a lot of times. I am pretty sure everybody dealing with the stores have themselves experienced it first hand and not always through their own faults. There needs to be at least some regulation or legal framework for impartial grievance redressal.