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> I find the decision of the scorned developers to file with the European Union’s competition office amusing... Apple is under no obligation to offer unfettered
by canuckintime 7y ago
> I find the decision of the scorned developers to file with the European Union’s competition office amusing... Apple is under no obligation to offer unfettered API access to these companies just because they were filling a market need that Apple didn't want to pursue.
The crux of the complaint is that Apple is pursuing this market need with Screentime introduced at the same time Apple started banning these competitor apps from developers
- geofft 7y agoYes, that's the complaint, but it's not a convincing one. Apple doesn't make money from Screen Time; it's a default part of iOS, with no subscription fees, and everyone with a compatible device gets iOS upgrades themselves for free (and Apple's been really good about compatibility in the last few releases). Apple saying "We wish that third parties were not abusing MDM to provide this feature, but we recognize the feature is important, so we'll just implement it ourselves and only kill the third-party apps once our thing works" is an entirely coherent thought process. It is exactly what Apple would do if the are genuinely motivated by user privacy/security and genuinely not motivated by trying to be anti-competitive towards these apps.