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It’s more like having a shop in a mall. Apple doesn’t take 30% of anything using their phones. They take 30% of anything installed and bought using their walle
by prepend 5y ago
It’s more like having a shop in a mall.
Apple doesn’t take 30% of anything using their phones. They take 30% of anything installed and bought using their walled garden/app store/api/etc. Similar to Windows store, Xbox, ps, steam, etc etc.
I used to be annoyed at Nintendo and Sega requiring their cut, but got used to it.
What makes it different is that Apple isn’t a monopoly. You can use Android or PCs or whatever.
If we want this to change, we probably need some version of right to repair that forces “right to sideload.”
- skyde 5y agoYou are right but why not more people push for « right to sideload “ ? It would be easy to force apple to let you install android on the hardware you paid for (the physical phone). But forcing them to keep their OS backward compatible with some api used by some sideloaded app ... might be hard.
- rhodysurf 5y agoYou’re missing the part where apple only allows users to install apps through that App Store