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Where do you think those app developers / apps originally came from. Huge amounts of people bought those iphones first man.
by ikiris 3y ago
Where do you think those app developers / apps originally came from.
Huge amounts of people bought those iphones first man.
- kelnos 3y agoSo what? Shut down the App Store tomorrow, and forcibly delete all non-Apple-authored apps off of everyone's iPhones. Watch everyone flock to Android, no matter how much they claim to hate it. Watch Apple's stock drop into the toilet. Apple needs all their third-party developers just as much as those developers need Apple -- more than at least some of those developers need Apple.
- yazaddaruvala 3y agoIf the AppStore was shut down tomorrow, and all my apps forcibly removed: I'd keep using my iPhone with Safari. Might even become a better experience. I'd need to save some short cuts for things like Google Maps, my banks, etc but that seems like all of the hassle. I might miss the notifications (exclusively for the messaging apps - for all other apps I don't want them to have notifications) but otherwise, the biggest annoyance would be on the airplane I wouldn't have some pre-downloaded streaming content from apps like Netflix and Youtube.
- Detrytus 3y agoI guess you do not really use your iPhone that much :) For me removing non-Apple apps would render my phone useless: losing contact with my friends on WhatsApp and Signal, no way to call an Uber/taxi, no mobile authorization for my bank accounts, no MFA apps that I use for work...
- wwtrv 3y agoPeople wouldn't have bought them if there were no apps available though.
- coldtea 3y agoPeople bought the iPhone when there were no apps available. And devs complained that there's no SDK, and Apple told them they can make web-based apps, and they didn't like that. Now the have an SDK, and they complain they can't create nice enough web-based apps.