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Access to 20 billion unjailbroken iPhones
by corobo 6y ago
Access to 20 billion unjailbroken iPhones
- gokhan 6y agoA competing app store, if allowed, would do equally well
- kjakm 6y agoTake away those apps and those iPhone's become useless bricks. Apps + developers add huge value to the platform.
- threeseed 6y agoI think you are vastly overstating the importance of apps. Apple could easily remove the App Store tomorrow, sign deals with a dozen or so companies e.g. Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, Snap, Google, Microsoft etc and they would still sell devices.
- kjakm 6y agoI think if you think back to 2007/8 and people had the choice of Android with millions of apps and a higher priced iOS ecosystem which only has some high profile apps so few people would choose iOS that it would quickly become a waste of money for FB/Twitter/MS to build their apps for it and it would die.
- mirchibajji 6y agoIsn't this part of the problem though? Apple _could_ remove the app store, and consumers would lose the apps that have existed so far, with no alternative.
- kristianc 6y agoThe parent complains that apps on phones are mostly useless Barcode Scanners and scam QR readers. Apple could easily do away with third party apps and sign licensing deals with third parties, and they’d still be massively popular. Most people download the same apps, and then there is an enormous long tail with barely any downloads at all.
- horsawlarway 6y agoYes, list more abuse as a reason to justify this particular abuse.
- corobo 6y agoI try to interpret peoples' statements in the best possible light, you appear to do the opposite. I've justified nothing.
- Hamuko 6y agoApparently AT&T Mobility gives access to 144 million subscribers. I think this is an incredible value proposition that AT&T is offering to Netflix, HBO and the likes. For reasons unknown, Netflix apparently hates this incredible offer. https://www.attpublicpolicy.com/broadband/who-should-pay-for-netflix/ https://www.attpublicpolicy.com/broadband/who-should-pay-for...