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> Someone who preferred the security, privacy, and simplicity of a walled garden is potentially losing that choice. That someone could still use Apple's app st
by rtsil 4y ago
> Someone who preferred the security, privacy, and simplicity of a walled garden is potentially losing that choice.
That someone could still use Apple's app store and just ignore the alternatives, just like the large majority of Android users.
- slg 4y ago>and just ignore the alternatives Unless apps are exclusive to the alternatives like this whole Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp hypothetical.
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- Apocryphon 4y agoWhich would turn the eye of Sauron that is the European Commission onto Meta for their monopolistic behavior, especially if it's transparently and flagrantly for the purpose of cheap data collection.
- ThatPlayer 4y agoThen why haven't Meta already removed their apps from the Apple App Store and only released them on the Meta Android Store? Make their apps exclusives to an alternative of iOS altogether. Do you think users would be forced to buy a Meta Phone in that case? Or would they be able to ignore it? Or maybe Meta are forced to release on Apple iPhone because consumers have power. Well that same power can get them to release on the Apple App Store if there were alternatives. That's how supply and demand in the free market works.