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Wouldn't be surprised that the conversation is happening behind the scenes, and Google doesn't want to make a public fuss about it. Happened before with Kindle
by nevir 4y ago
Wouldn't be surprised that the conversation is happening behind the scenes, and Google doesn't want to make a public fuss about it.
Happened before with Kindle, for example (that originally had a store built in …which Apple blocked so that they could release in-app purchasing a few months later)
- chipotle_coyote 4y agoThe Kindle change wasn't behind-the-scenes, though. Apple made a change to their publicly-documented App Store policies that made the Kindle Store against their new rules and the subsequent back and forth between Amazon and Apple was widely reported on. And that's kind of what I'm getting at. It's not that Apple doesn't do petty, vindictive, and greedy things. It's that if Apple had been blocking Google from submitting an app for five years, it's very hard to believe there wouldn't have been an "anonymous leak" from someone on Google's side over it -- this is the sort of story that tech reporters would eat up, and Google would have good reason to want it out there.