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What about the freedom to choose a highly curated platform because you want that and are prepared to pay a premium for it?

IncRnd 6y ago
What about it? You, personally, making that choice shouldn't force everyone else to pay 30% eternally to Apple.
- Google234 6y ago
  You don’t have to pay 30% to Apple. Jail break your phone is you want or just buy one of the 1000s of other phones for. Sale
  - IncRnd 6y ago
    > You don’t have to pay 30% to Apple. Jail break your phone is you want or just buy one of the 1000s of other phones for. Sale That's a completely unreasonable sales strategy for a company to take, telling their customers to jailbreak their phones or to purchase a different phone.
- MrScruff 6y ago
  Nobody is forced to pay 30% eternally to Apple. You make it sound as though people switching to Android isn't possible, yet I know many people who've done it.
newbie578 6y ago
And you deserve to have it. Just let other users also use another platform if they want to. That is what Epic is trying to achieve. Let there be multiple App Stores on iOS so people are free to choose. You can keep using the App Store and be inside your curated platform or you can alternatively also use Epic's or Amazon's, whoever tries to make their own platform on iOS and Android, so that people are free to choose. Either that or the App Store needs to be separated from Apple Inc. which makes the hardware. Currently, the App Store doesn't cover the user's best interests but Apple's best (financial) interest, and as long as it is under one company, App Store will always push to the benefit of Apple and detriment to all others. Think Spotify and Apple Music, Chrome and Safari, Google Maps and Apple Maps.
- MrScruff 6y ago
  Allowing multiple app stores inherently breaks the 'curated' feature. It would make it like on my PC, where I have to install 10s of 'stores' to access individual pieces of software. Perhaps you think this is a positive thing, I don't. One possible workaround would be for Apple to allow additional stores/sideloading, but all apps available via this method would need to also be available via the Apple store, if accepted. Not sure how this would be enforced though.

IncRnd 6y ago

What about it? You, personally, making that choice shouldn't force everyone else to pay 30% eternally to Apple.

Google234 6y ago
You don’t have to pay 30% to Apple. Jail break your phone is you want or just buy one of the 1000s of other phones for. Sale
- IncRnd 6y ago
  > You don’t have to pay 30% to Apple. Jail break your phone is you want or just buy one of the 1000s of other phones for. Sale That's a completely unreasonable sales strategy for a company to take, telling their customers to jailbreak their phones or to purchase a different phone.
MrScruff 6y ago
Nobody is forced to pay 30% eternally to Apple. You make it sound as though people switching to Android isn't possible, yet I know many people who've done it.

newbie578 6y ago

And you deserve to have it. Just let other users also use another platform if they want to. That is what Epic is trying to achieve. Let there be multiple App Stores on iOS so people are free to choose. You can keep using the App Store and be inside your curated platform or you can alternatively also use Epic's or Amazon's, whoever tries to make their own platform on iOS and Android, so that people are free to choose. Either that or the App Store needs to be separated from Apple Inc. which makes the hardware. Currently, the App Store doesn't cover the user's best interests but Apple's best (financial) interest, and as long as it is under one company, App Store will always push to the benefit of Apple and detriment to all others. Think Spotify and Apple Music, Chrome and Safari, Google Maps and Apple Maps.

MrScruff 6y ago
Allowing multiple app stores inherently breaks the 'curated' feature. It would make it like on my PC, where I have to install 10s of 'stores' to access individual pieces of software. Perhaps you think this is a positive thing, I don't. One possible workaround would be for Apple to allow additional stores/sideloading, but all apps available via this method would need to also be available via the Apple store, if accepted. Not sure how this would be enforced though.