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> Are the days of being able to manage most of my digital subscriptions from a single screen in the settings of my phone over? You applaud this ruling yet you
by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
> Are the days of being able to manage most of my digital subscriptions from a single screen in the settings of my phone over?
You applaud this ruling yet you fear the outcomes. Don't you think this is dissonant?
Keep in mind the kind of ruthless practices we've seen from Epic Games' store make Google and Apple seem like child's play.
Nothing good will come out of this fragmentation. It makes no sense in the first place to have multiple app stores per one OS. An OS only exists to host apps on the device, and the store exists to host apps in a central repository from where devices copy. Both are part of one service continuum.
The apps target the same APIs and the same OS. I wish we'd see more OS and hardware platforms instead, each with its own store. A healthy market would be 3-5 types of devices with their own OS you can pick from. Alas.
- ThatPlayer 3y ago> An OS only exists to host apps on the device, and the store exists to host apps in a central repository from where devices copy. Then the store needs to have the apps I want available. If they don't, why shouldn't I be able to look at other stores?
- maccard 3y ago> Keep in mind the kind of ruthless practices we've seen from Epic Games' store make Google and Apple seem like child's play. I disagree - all EGS did was fund exclusives. Meanwhile, both Apple and Google have been propping up other categories with gaming spends, and offering hushed sweetheart deals to other categories. > The apps target the same APIs and the same OS. I wish we'd see more OS and hardware platforms instead, each with its own store. A healthy market would be 3-5 types of devices with their own OS you can pick from. Alas. Could not agree any more.