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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by mehhh on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:43AM (#21215830)
The business model is outdated, Safari purposefully being a laggard with no alternatives on iOS will eventually bite Apple in the butt, it is just a question of when.

Both the Music industry and Apple seek to maintain their control and thus their cash cows, but whether that will continue to work out for Apple remains to be seen...

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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by riffraff on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:59PM (#21216781)
> The business model is outdated

And what is it's replacement? It seems in app purchases are what keeps up a large part of mobile apps.

iTunes changed the music business, but I have not noticed a similar change for mobile apps, web or not.

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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by mehhh on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:03PM (#21216836)
SaaS and Entertainment as a service are the replacements, hence Apple Music and their new streaming service. This is also why AT&T, Verizon, Sinclair and Comcast have spent the last half decade buying media companies.
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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by thenewnewguy on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:27AM (#21230877)
Why does there need to be a replacement? Apple already sells the hardware and their software (iOS and the preinstalled apps) and makes money off of that.

If I make my app available via my website as a PWA, and all the hosting costs are my own, and don't use any of the app store's services, why does Apple deserve a share of the in app (in PWA?) purchases?

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