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> It's just an analogy that happens to fit Apple's world view of their App Store. The problem with the world view, of course, is that there's more to the world
by nexuist 6y ago
> It's just an analogy that happens to fit Apple's world view of their App Store.
The problem with the world view, of course, is that there's more to the world than Best Buy.
If I don't like a widget at Best Buy I can go look it up and buy it from Amazon. Or Target. Or Walmart. Or Alibaba.
If I use an iPhone I am limited to what Apple allows on their shelves, full stop. If Best Buy dictated everything you were allowed to buy, that would seem rather problematic, right? I can't see any way that a corporate executive would justify not only not placing a certain brand on their shelves, but also physically blocking their customers from walking into any other store. Imagine the PR field day if an Apple store manager paid his or her employees to stand in front of the Microsoft store and physically assault any of their customers if they tried to walk inside!
And yet that's exactly what they're doing virtually. We can't use a Microsoft app store, or an Amazon app store, or Google Play. We are beholden to the manager's personal preferences of what we can and can't buy.
- barkingcat 6y agothe other side of the equation is that you are free not to buy an apple device (for now) the collective amount of people buying apple devices is what gives them the power to implement these rules on their own. I forsee a time in the future when you are forced to buy an Apple product from birth, no options allowed.
- toiletfuneral 6y agoYou should probbaly spend some time outside
- arvinsim 6y agoThat is what antitrust is supposed to prevent
- nexuist 6y ago> the collective amount of people buying apple devices is what gives them the power to implement these rules on their own. Generally whenever some sort of product or process gains a large level of public usage, it gets regulated. This has been true of every technology since the lightbulb. I think we as a civilization realized that just letting people at the top apply their arbitrary preferences to everyone else was hurtful and nonproductive.
- toiletfuneral 6y agoCan you explain how apple is paying employees to block / assault you from getting Microsoft apps on your iPhone? I'm not following this analogy