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> In your example: Volkswagen imposes quality controls on those parts, making sure they're not going to blow up or subvert the car. So, like almost everything
by m00x 6y ago
> In your example: Volkswagen imposes quality controls on those parts, making sure they're not going to blow up or subvert the car.
So, like almost everything you buy? This is why branding and reputation are important. You can be cheap, but you get what you pay for.
- chrisseaton 6y agoBut we don't want to have to check brands and research - we want a trusted party ensuring quality because their reputation is on the line.
- koyote 6y agoThat does not go away, there's nothing stopping you from buying genuine parts from the manufacturer if you trust them more than the competition.
- chrisseaton 6y agoBut having a system that accepts non-genuine parts leads to a more complicated system. Apple's system is simple. Android's system is more complicated because it has multiple app stores. I don't want that complexity.
- koyote 6y agoThat's an interesting way of thinking which I've not really encountered outside of Soviet-style centrally controlled economy advocates and the like. Do you feel the same way about all other things in life where you are presented with a choice? Would you prefer there to only be a single grocery store you get your groceries from, for example?
- chrisseaton 6y agoNo I’m in favour of competition, but competition between simple clean focused products, not the Homer cars other people seem to want. If you want a different App Store then market a different phone don’t drag down the iPhone.
- gambiting 6y agoI just don't understand. I really try hard to understand, but I physically can't I think. Let's say that hypothetically, there was another store present on iOS. Does that stop you(or anyone) from only ever using the Apple App Store?? On Android, there are several other stores available, yet I have never felt the need to use any of them - they exist, they have their own customers.....but....that's it. It's like if you already have one shop in your village, so you prevent others from opening even though literally nothing would force you to go to these other shops and you can still enjoy the original shop as much as you did before. Literally nothing changes in your life, but you want to prevent others from having a choice, even if you yourself don't appreciate the choice. That's mindboggling to me.
- chrisseaton 6y agoApple would have to do the work to modify their software to support multiple stores, and they’d have to support the code for that going forward. They’d be doing that instead of something else productive that I could use. So it’s a loss to me and other Apple users who appreciate the curated system at the moment. Your analogy is ‘prevent’ but really it’s ‘not want to do the work to enable’. See how that’s not the same thing? Instead of 'not preventing someone opening a new shop in the village' you're asking them to cut a hole in the side of their store so someone in a greasy food cart can connect up to it and sell smelly burgers with poor food hygiene standards in the middle of their boutique, and then maintain that hole going forward. They don't want to do that! Many of their customers don't want that! Those customers that do want it can go somewhere else, like Android!
- saagarjha 6y agoHow much work do you really think that it would take them to remove the entitlement on the daemon that installs apps? I have heard that entire App Store frontend was maintained by like a single engineer until like iOS 8. The change would be fairly simple; the amount of time they spend on fighting these things both in court and with technological measure in the OS is many orders of magnitude more than this.