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It’s all about trade-offs. Sure, they can do that. But what’s the likelihood of it happening really? Do we have good numbers? If you want to be creative and ea

by baxtr 3y ago

It’s all about trade-offs. Sure, they can do that. But what’s the likelihood of it happening really? Do we have good numbers? If you want to be creative and earn money apps are a decent way. Apple/Google take care of a lot of things and you get their reach. Is it without risks? No, nothing is in life. Is the risk high? Probably not for 99.99% of developers.

jacquesm 3y ago
It's not about the likelihood of it happening, it is about the principle of it being possible and it happening to anybody in the first place. On the plus side: those complaining were actually supporting the system until it bit them so that's about a powerful a wake-up call as there probably will be. Unfortunately it doesn't generalize well because everybody else thinks: 'oh, that fortunately wasn't me that got bitten'.
- crazygringo 3y ago
  > It's not about the likelihood of it happening, it is about the principle of it being possible But honestly, that's just life. Every business takes risks. You take a risk every time you step out the door. It's silly to say every app developer is enabling the situation. I mean, you might as well say anybody who allows payment in USD is enabling American foreign policy. But it's not helpful. The risk/reward ratio for genuinely useful, non-scammy apps is quite excellent. In real life, nothing is about whether something is a binary possible yes/no, because mistakes always happen in everything. We're only human. Everything is just a question of probabilities -- risk and reward.
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    The internet was specifically designed to limit the number of such gatekeeping options and commercial entities were never supposed to be able to maneuver themselves into a position like that.
    - crazygringo 3y ago
      The internet was designed specifically for IP traffic to be able to route around failed communication nodes. And for TCP to handle things like throttling and retries and packet order. That's pretty much all. App stores are an economic matter we can choose to regulate or not via existing mechanisms of representative democracy. For now, the US population hasn't shown much interest in it.

by baxtr 3y ago

jacquesm 3y ago

It's not about the likelihood of it happening, it is about the principle of it being possible and it happening to anybody in the first place. On the plus side: those complaining were actually supporting the system until it bit them so that's about a powerful a wake-up call as there probably will be. Unfortunately it doesn't generalize well because everybody else thinks: 'oh, that fortunately wasn't me that got bitten'.

crazygringo 3y ago
> It's not about the likelihood of it happening, it is about the principle of it being possible But honestly, that's just life. Every business takes risks. You take a risk every time you step out the door. It's silly to say every app developer is enabling the situation. I mean, you might as well say anybody who allows payment in USD is enabling American foreign policy. But it's not helpful. The risk/reward ratio for genuinely useful, non-scammy apps is quite excellent. In real life, nothing is about whether something is a binary possible yes/no, because mistakes always happen in everything. We're only human. Everything is just a question of probabilities -- risk and reward.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  The internet was specifically designed to limit the number of such gatekeeping options and commercial entities were never supposed to be able to maneuver themselves into a position like that.
  - crazygringo 3y ago
    The internet was designed specifically for IP traffic to be able to route around failed communication nodes. And for TCP to handle things like throttling and retries and packet order. That's pretty much all. App stores are an economic matter we can choose to regulate or not via existing mechanisms of representative democracy. For now, the US population hasn't shown much interest in it.