> Love or hate the Apple arrangement, but they seem consistent on giving everyone the same terms. Previously on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

> Love or hate the Apple arrangement, but they seem consistent on giving everyone the same terms. Previously on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36882467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36882467 From the article: > Today, there are more than 2.4 million mini-programs that can be run within WeChat. If this trend continues, there will come a time when developers will concentrate on developing new useful mini-programs to run on WeChat instead of stand-alone apps which have to abide by certain rules before it becomes available on the App Store. > If Apple cracks down on WeChat’s practices, Chinese customers will have little reason to ever buy an iPhone. > So, if Apple wants the Chinese to continue to buy iPhones, they have to let WeChat – one of the most privacy-invasive and censorship driven apps on the planet, continue to ignore its App Store rules. back home [uber] skirts the boundaries of the law if not outright crosses it several times and it is still available on the app store. Not that any of this excuses anything Google does but just wanted to point out that Apple most definitely does NOT give everyone the same terms. [uber] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanic... https://archive.ph/uJ0vm https://archive.ph/uJ0vm