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There's a part of me that really wants to know just how many people actually care about this. When I was a teenager I was really into the rooting/jailbreaking
by sadmin 4y ago
There's a part of me that really wants to know just how many people actually care about this.
When I was a teenager I was really into the rooting/jailbreaking concept. It was cool at the time, when the iPhone didn't have copy/paste, but I'm past that phase now and don't see a need for it.
Does sideloading really benefit the end user? The article seems to think it favors only other corporations.
I can forsee a future where my iPhone will have the Apple app store, a Spotify app store, a Netflix app store, an Amazon app store... doesn't this sound a lot like what's happened to streaming services? As an end user, I don't want this.
Will apple enforce having an offering on their app store if Spotify wants to offer their own alternative to bypass the 30% cut? or will Spotify remove their listing from Apple's store, and make my life, the end-users's life, more difficult?
- heleninboodler 4y agoI doubt many end users care about this, but there are businesses out there that are simply not offering their services on IOS because they can't justify passing a 30% markup to their customers, and they run on thinner margins than that themselves, so they'd go broke eating it. An example is bandcamp, which takes a 10-15% cut. Saying "sorry, everything is 30% more expensive on iphones" is a nonstarter, and so is keeping the prices the same. So they simply don't sell you music if you're in the ios app. I believe apple will even reject your app if you dare to provide a web link where the purchase can be made in the browser.