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Apple is likely going to be sued by FB and Google and eventually they will lose the control over their platform. Yes the terms are in the TOS. Those terms shoul
by tokyodude 8y ago
Apple is likely going to be sued by FB and Google and eventually they will lose the control over their platform. Yes the terms are in the TOS. Those terms should be illegal. Same as say non-competes are illegal in some places. No company should have that kind of power.
And, before you say it's the same as some company turning off your net based account, no it is not. For example if you upload porn to flickr and they delete your account in that case you're using flickr's servers. In this case Google is using phones owned by Googlers and other customers to run software by Google. Apple is not involved at all here unlike the example flickr case above. Apple should not be allowed to reach into another company and kill it.
AFAICT Google and FB did nothing wrong here. Those apps were test apps. How else are you supposed to beta test something? Tons of software does this. You build an app, you offer beta program. You had out codes for the beta users. Beta testing with direct employees is not useful because employees are no representative of actual users.
- ViViDboarder 8y agoApple offers a program for doing public betas: https://developer.apple.com/testflight/ https://developer.apple.com/testflight/ Google and Facebook appear to have used a different method of distribution than this and thus violated their terms.