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It's funny how the general consensus on here is against Microsoft's abuse of private APIs in Windows to help Word and DOS against WordPerfect and DrDOS, 20+ yea
by belltaco 7y ago
It's funny how the general consensus on here is against Microsoft's abuse of private APIs in Windows to help Word and DOS against WordPerfect and DrDOS, 20+ years ago. But Apple doing it right now in a much worse way is considered acceptable and defendable.
- drenvuk 7y agoI don't think anyone here considers Apple's abuse of private APIs vs developers an ok thing. I will never subject myself to their app store if I can help it.
- saagarjha 7y agoI'm fairly sure a number of App Store developers browse Hacker News.
- DonHopkins 7y agoMany of us frequently subject ourselves to all kinds of abuse that we don't consider an ok thing. It's shameful but eh, it's a living. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyxJ7GKGFG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyxJ7GKGFG0
- Mirioron 7y agoI think it's more a case of people just being unaware. They might have an idea that this is going on, but because they've never run into it it's not something that's a priority. I'd even wager that the vast majority of non-Americans here don't use Apple hardware.
- andykx 7y agoThis is a straw man argument. Who is making that point? In general, I find the opinions on these things to be pretty consistent: the “free market” types tend to support Apple/MS - usually with some form of “its their platform” as an argument - and the FOSS types holding the opposite position.
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- ASalazarMX 7y agoWalled gardens weren't as normalized then.