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There is no realistic way to move between these giant platforms. As a consumer, once you’ve purchased services and applications, you are pretty much locked to t
by LeoNatan25 6y ago
There is no realistic way to move between these giant platforms. As a consumer, once you’ve purchased services and applications, you are pretty much locked to the ecosystem. This is another aspect that requires legislation.
Taking this problem into account, it is monopoly power. Allowing this party software installation is the only solution.
In this case, since it’s on macOS, the problem is moot. But on iOS, that is the only solution that will benefit consumers.
- null_object 6y agoOh well, as the downvotes have started I may as well say that I'm genuinely not convinced by any of these arguments. And I'm not in any way an Apple 'fan-boy' - I'm very much opposed to how deceptive the app-subscription system can be, and hate the monetized apps aimed at children (and have written to Apple many times about these matters). But pretty much the only substantive argument in favor of using legislation to attack Apple's 'monopoly' always seems to boil down to "their system is so much better than the alternatives that the user is locked-in". If that's the best HN has got, then I think the standard stance is basically sour grapes. Anyway, as others have pointed out, Amphetamine could totally have been distributed outside the supposed 'monopoly' store environment - so the app-developers bleating was especially egregious.