Technology

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Go ahead, this is a safe space. Get it out of your system.

I mean the EU made them allow app stores but Apple made a complete mockery of them by requiring their rubber stamp and charging "only" 27% fee and the EU is just letting them get away with that so yeah, I have little faith.

Their entire business model has been to focus on systems that lock people in and exclude people who are out. None of this is done for security or as a means for the best possible customer experience. It's done for the sole purpose of forcing income they couldn't achieve with innovation alone. I've heard so many tech reviewers and even my own personal friends who say they would love to switch if only to try something else. They say they'd switch today if their friends, family and coworkers wouldn't get mad at them. Apples only real innovation over the past ten years has been built in social pressure.

I have to agree. Switching to USB-C is a big step, but I doubt Apple will become more interoperable unless they are forced to.

I was you up until 3 months ago. I went nuclear and focused on the more open source side of android and have been so much happier for it. Sold everything to afford the changes.

Sorry but the only way out of that is to stop buying apple products

I get the design choice, it looks nice, but the hardware is rather trashy and both hardware and software are hostile to it's users. That won't ever change

Nope, it was so they could take the 30% cut of every penny that is spent on one of their platforms, and also so that it would be extremely inconvenient to leave their ecosystem since doing so would mean leaving behind most of your data.

You still have the freedom to not use alternative app stores.

You can certainly argue that more control makes iPhones safer, since its harder to get malicious software on the phone. But Apple is also abusing their control for their own gain.

You could also argue that locking you in a room would be safer than letting you walk freely out in the world. But I don't we want that either.

Oh no, not more freedom and rights, please no!

Companies that do anti-consumer practices shouldn't think it's the norm. The more we fuck Apple, the less other companies think that it's OK to fuck consumers.

This is such a lazy argument, it doesn't add any kind of value and it shows you don't care about how other people are treated. Please stop doing this.

Walled gardens are not good for anyone.

Apple is free to sell phones where walled gardens are allowed. You're also free to stay in the walled garden, Apple lied to you.

If but perfect you mean perfectly exploitative, sure. The walled garden issue has nothing to do with ease of use my friend; in fact, the whole point is to do the opposite - make anything outside the wall impossibly hard to access or use.

No one is forcing you do use apps outside of the app store. It's about choice.

If such a competitor emerged they'd not be able to trade in the EU, given the size of the EU economy that ain't happening.