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Maybe. Incentives are different on iOS. Apps are more-restricted and the platform’s more valuable. Could play out like it did on Android, but might not.
by hotnfresh 3y ago
Maybe. Incentives are different on iOS. Apps are more-restricted and the platform’s more valuable. Could play out like it did on Android, but might not.
- oblio 3y agoIncentives are exactly the same, $$$. And you're making it out like the Play Store is worth peanuts. https://cybercrew.uk/software/app-store-vs-play-store/#h3 https://cybercrew.uk/software/app-store-vs-play-store/#h3 App Store led with an estimated revenue of $85.1 billion in 2021 Google Play Store generated revenues of nearly $47.9 billion in 2021. Nobody's ever going to try something shady for "just" $47.9 billion :-)))
- hotnfresh 3y ago… and the platform’s more restrictive. There were two factors I mentioned. And that’s just store revenue—it’ll skew harder toward Apple if you include other ways of making money on mobile. I don’t recall Facebook publicly throwing any tantrums over Play Store policy changes. It’s also possible that being able to put a store on both platforms is the kind of thing that would get, say, Facebook to expand the Quest software store to mobile. They’ll want to do that for Apple’s headset at least, if these changes open that up to them—expanding that effort to include iOS and Android seems like something with decent odds of happening.
- oblio 3y agoKnowing the EU, further privacy policies are probably going to be announced at some point, greatly crippling the current form of targeted advertising, including on Android.
- hotnfresh 3y agoThat’d be nice. Not having “doesn’t let companies do shit to you that ought to be illegal… as much” be a platform differentiator would be great. That should just be a given.