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Whats the point of market fixing itself in this situation? "Market fixing itself" describe relationships between consumer and supplier. In this case "consumer"
by p2t2p 5y ago
Whats the point of market fixing itself in this situation?
"Market fixing itself" describe relationships between consumer and supplier. In this case "consumer" is better off so seems like market works as intended.
Developer's being f-ed over is sad thing but unless the situation for developers is so bad that they abandon App Store in troves then nothing will fix anything.
Also one could argue that overall situation is pretty-pleasing for everyone, apps that do not go into Apple's territory (system stuff) seem to be thriving and don't complain too much.
I'd rather them not to regulate it because they start with Apple and end up killing shareware and everything else. Who knows what kind of crazy stuff they'll invent for open source, can they outlaw it? I'd rather them to not even start.
- radmuzom 5y ago> In this case "consumer" is better off so seems like market works as intended. How is the consumer better off when a choice for them has been removed? If Apple's keyboard is superior, then consumers will automatically chose that and not buy this guy's software. How is this "nanny state" behaviour by Apple justified?
- p2t2p 5y agoI assumed that they get this option for free instead of buying an app and less stuff to install generally. If Apple's option is worse (which I doubt, at least for English) and/or original app is free then probably consumer suffers a bit. But if consumer is worse off then it is better because AFAIK American anti-monopoly system focuses on consumer's well-being so the more examples of consumer being worse off the easier to attract courts and regulators, isn't it?