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The answer is simple: Don't develop for iOS, then. OR, sue for something legit. Like the way Apple buries app publishers' trademarks even when users search for

The answer is simple: Don't develop for iOS, then. OR, sue for something legit. Like the way Apple buries app publishers' trademarks even when users search for them with an exactly-matching string. They will blatantly replace the string (and the publisher's trademark) with other publishers'.

user_named 4y ago
Nah. Apple has too much market power. They need to be reined in and the platform opened up.
- dmitrygr 4y ago
  Why would anyone ever develop a platform if this line of thinking is considered sane?
  - isitmadeofglass 4y ago
    This is like asking why anyone would ever have to win the lottery if they had to pay taxes on the winnings. Obviously anyone would want to repeat Apples success story even if they get rained in after becoming the worlds highest valued company and spending more than a decade with record profits.
    - NonNefarious 4y ago
      No, it is not. Apple built something; it wasn't handed something. Your attitude is that if you succeed, what you built should be taken away. In regard to Apple, this refrain is long past tiresome. Apple is not the gatekeeper to the entire Internet the way Google and (to a lesser extent) Meta is to a huge portion of the public. Lumping Apple in with Google, Meta, and Amazon betrays profound ignorance of the tech landscape. There are plenty of things to hammer Apple for. Lying to developers, consumers, and the government about app-store search results for one thing. But your "logic" here is devoid of merit. Refer us to your demands that oil companies be reigned in for making record profits while harming the economy of the nation. Refer us to your screed demanding that the meat-processing oligopoly be brought to heel for making record profits while bilking the public AND complaining about a labor shortage. Please provide a link to your essay condemning the regional monopolies that led to the baby-formula shortage. And at the very least, a copy of your letter to congressional representatives demanding that the TicketMaster monopoly be abolished after decades of consumer- and artist-harming behavior.

user_named 4y ago

Nah. Apple has too much market power. They need to be reined in and the platform opened up.

dmitrygr 4y ago
Why would anyone ever develop a platform if this line of thinking is considered sane?
- isitmadeofglass 4y ago
  This is like asking why anyone would ever have to win the lottery if they had to pay taxes on the winnings. Obviously anyone would want to repeat Apples success story even if they get rained in after becoming the worlds highest valued company and spending more than a decade with record profits.
  - NonNefarious 4y ago
    No, it is not. Apple built something; it wasn't handed something. Your attitude is that if you succeed, what you built should be taken away. In regard to Apple, this refrain is long past tiresome. Apple is not the gatekeeper to the entire Internet the way Google and (to a lesser extent) Meta is to a huge portion of the public. Lumping Apple in with Google, Meta, and Amazon betrays profound ignorance of the tech landscape. There are plenty of things to hammer Apple for. Lying to developers, consumers, and the government about app-store search results for one thing. But your "logic" here is devoid of merit. Refer us to your demands that oil companies be reigned in for making record profits while harming the economy of the nation. Refer us to your screed demanding that the meat-processing oligopoly be brought to heel for making record profits while bilking the public AND complaining about a labor shortage. Please provide a link to your essay condemning the regional monopolies that led to the baby-formula shortage. And at the very least, a copy of your letter to congressional representatives demanding that the TicketMaster monopoly be abolished after decades of consumer- and artist-harming behavior.