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If past cases are something to go by, there is a very real risk here for Apple and they're digging their own regulatory grave by behaving like this.

Someone 6y ago
Not doing anything might be worse. Within a month, all major money-making apps would make a similar move, hiding the functionality from Apple’s review process and then activating it once most of their users have upgraded. Apple could spend time and money trying to find such hidden features, but that would mean many major apps would see no updates. That’s a losing game, too, even if they are successful at detecting such hidden functionality. They must have thought about this and decided this is their optimal initial response (it need not be the final one. They can put the app back in their store in seconds) I can understand that. Allowing this is guaranteeing the end of the App Store. Fighting gives them a chance salvaging it, parts of it, or at least, delay the inevitable.
- aaomidi 6y ago
  > Allowing this is guaranteeing the end of the App Store Is it though? Has the play store ended because Google allows side loading? The issue here is Apple simply doesn't really take risks and innovate to be the first in an industry. They take existing tech, polish them VERY well, and then try to make a lot of money off of it. Problem is they're trying to leverage their position to run other companies out of business (Spotify and Apple music for example, or Netflix and Apple TV+)
  - Someone 6y ago
    End of the App Store because all high-grossing products would stop bringing in money. Doesn’t take risks? They spent lots of money on hardware for machining aluminium (a move that turned out good, I think), developed the Touch Bar (got mixed reviews), a new keyboard (not that successfully), decided to move to ARM CPUs in the desktop (potentially, that could bite them in the future. If x86 CPUs ever become faster than Apple ones, the speed difference with Windows may lose them customers for their high-margin devices), etc.
    - aaomidi 6y ago
      None of those are really innovations with new products, but yeah. I guess this is moving away from the main conversation. But I don't really see the App Store going anywhere even if third party app stores were allowed.
Tostino 6y ago
And they can't dig fast enough IMO. This should have been handled years ago when it was already obviously a problem.

Someone 6y ago

Not doing anything might be worse. Within a month, all major money-making apps would make a similar move, hiding the functionality from Apple’s review process and then activating it once most of their users have upgraded. Apple could spend time and money trying to find such hidden features, but that would mean many major apps would see no updates. That’s a losing game, too, even if they are successful at detecting such hidden functionality. They must have thought about this and decided this is their optimal initial response (it need not be the final one. They can put the app back in their store in seconds) I can understand that. Allowing this is guaranteeing the end of the App Store. Fighting gives them a chance salvaging it, parts of it, or at least, delay the inevitable.

aaomidi 6y ago
> Allowing this is guaranteeing the end of the App Store Is it though? Has the play store ended because Google allows side loading? The issue here is Apple simply doesn't really take risks and innovate to be the first in an industry. They take existing tech, polish them VERY well, and then try to make a lot of money off of it. Problem is they're trying to leverage their position to run other companies out of business (Spotify and Apple music for example, or Netflix and Apple TV+)
- Someone 6y ago
  End of the App Store because all high-grossing products would stop bringing in money. Doesn’t take risks? They spent lots of money on hardware for machining aluminium (a move that turned out good, I think), developed the Touch Bar (got mixed reviews), a new keyboard (not that successfully), decided to move to ARM CPUs in the desktop (potentially, that could bite them in the future. If x86 CPUs ever become faster than Apple ones, the speed difference with Windows may lose them customers for their high-margin devices), etc.
  - aaomidi 6y ago
    None of those are really innovations with new products, but yeah. I guess this is moving away from the main conversation. But I don't really see the App Store going anywhere even if third party app stores were allowed.

Tostino 6y ago

And they can't dig fast enough IMO. This should have been handled years ago when it was already obviously a problem.