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Why not get an Android device?

• halfnormalform 6y ago
  Because they sell your digital soul to advertisers.
  • threeseed 6y ago
    Which is exactly what would happen if there were third party app stores. It would be a race to the bottom where they all ended up with zero margins but where your data is sold to third parties.
    • toyg 6y ago
      Nobody would stop a quality alternative from holding out. Not unlike Apple surviving the onslaught of cheap PC clones.
    • badsectoracula 6y ago
      How does me being able to install an application i downloaded from F-Droid, GitHub or whatever other place i might trust or even developed myself on my phone without having to pay or get Apple's permission mean that Apple will sell my data to 3rd parties?
      • jimmydorry 6y ago
        Not GP, but if enough people were conditioned to install their apps from sources outside of the appstore, Apple may end up seeing their AppStore margins shrink and do a pivot to selling user data.
        • yoz-y 6y ago
          That's not it, even with the numbers Apple touts they are getting from the App Store, they could comfortably live without. It's the third party app stores that would sell the aggregate data instead of taking a cut off sales.
        • badsectoracula 6y ago
          But that isn't something that has to happen, only something that Apple may choose to do. They do not have to, however.
    • walrus01 6y ago
      > Which is exactly what would happen if there were third party app stores. there already are lots of third-party android app stores, if you look at the variants of android packaged and shipped on new-in-box phones in mainland china.
  • neolog 6y ago
    Source?
• heavyset_go 6y ago
  Android is hobbled, as well. The only way to implement automatic upgrading, background installation or batch upgrading/installation of apps is via the Play Store. Not only that, but most people have no idea how to side load apps, and Android doesn't make it easy. Both Google and Apple have kept a stranglehold on the mobile app distribution market for over a decade now.
  • freedomben 6y ago
    > Not only that, but most people have no idea how to side load apps, and Android doesn't make it easy. I completely disagree. I'm not sure how they could make it much easier without defaulting to allowing it. Download the APK, open it, click install (or if the setting disallows it, follow the prompt to change the setting).
    • johannes1234321 6y ago
      The tour via settings isn't that easy for "Joe Average" and updating isn't easy as well.
      • Andys 6y ago
        This is a good thing! It shouldn't be too easy, just easily possible for someone who knows what they're doing (What we used to call "power users", what happened to those?)
        • johannes1234321 6y ago
          The point in this sun thread is "phone creators make it hard to use other app stores, that's anti-competitiom", the GP claimed "it's easy on android, come on" I refused that notion. I didn't make a statement about the value as I'm conflicted. I see the issues of the Windows desktop, where users install whatever they find as administrator without second thought, but I also see the issue of gatekeepers apple and Google ...
      • mdorazio 6y ago