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If the app review process is supposed to ban objectionable content then why is Netflix allowed? What stops Netflix from putting bestiality porn on their service
by ponker 6y ago
If the app review process is supposed to ban objectionable content then why is Netflix allowed? What stops Netflix from putting bestiality porn on their service (and thus onto iDevices) any more than Microsoft putting objectionable games on xCloud? Simply, because Apple knows that iPhones are commercially unviable without Netflix.
Don’t accept the bullshit Apple offers for the App Store. It has always been about the benjamins, and to over a trillion dollars of success.
- zepto 6y agoIt’s not just about objectionable content - it’s also about fraud. Apps can be used for fraud in ways that video cannot.
- fomine3 6y agoSo Safari is top attack surface, why don't they ban Safari?
- zepto 6y agoBecause people know the difference between websites and apps.
- ponker 6y agoYou’re giving the same answers that Apple Marketing would.
- zepto 6y agoDo you think it isn’t true? You seem to be just deflecting.
- ponker 6y agoI do not think it's true that Apple's decision to ban Microsoft's xCloud is to protect their customers from games that are actually trying to defraud players. If this is deflecting then I guess call me the Great Deflector.
- zepto 6y agoDo you think it’s true that users can tell the difference between Apps and Websites? That’s the question you replied to without answering before.
- ponker 6y agoYes, I think they can tell the difference, but I don’t think that they’re somehow in an unguarded / safer frame of mind in apps, especially with how iOS will immediately transfer you to native apps. It’s an extraordinary claim by Apple that would need extraordinary evidence before I believed it.
- zepto 6y agoIt’s a ordinary claim, completely supported by the often quoted point that people are much more willing to spend money on iOS than Android or the web.
- 8note 6y agoAre there actually differences between websites and apps? It's just some code you got off the internet and run on your phone
- zepto 6y agoTwo differences seem relevant here. Apps are reviewed by Apple, and are only able to use certain payment mechanisms.
- fomine3 6y agoAppStore guideline is too arbitrary for Apple.