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I just want myself and consumers as a whole to be protected from predatory developers. Regarding the regulatory changes, I'd be happy with one of two things:

I just want myself and consumers as a whole to be protected from predatory developers. Regarding the regulatory changes, I'd be happy with one of two things: A) Governments impose restrictions on third party developers that are largely similar to the consumer protection standards that Apple has imposed on developers, while opening up alternative payment platforms. B) Governments impose restrictions on Apple to prevent Apple from preying on their customers. However, governments are going down the path of removing whatever protections the App Store provided consumers, without replacing those protections with any other pro-consumer regulation. This is the absolute worst case scenario for me. We've seen time and time again how developers will prey on their users, particularly with subscriptions.

toyg 5y ago
> governments are going down the path of removing whatever protections the App Store provided consumers, without replacing those protections As others pointed out, that's actually not true as far as the new EU regulation on the matter is concerned: it attempts to maintain principles that help users while removing monopolistic practices and abuses by gatekeepers. In any case, even if governments were to ban certain behaviours without mandating replacements, the responsibility for such outcome lies very plainly with the handful of giant platform vendors who strenuously refused to work with competition authorities in good faith - preferring instead to defend their monopolistic abuses to the last day - with Apple being the worst of the lot.