Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out of the App Store

Re:Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out o... by threeseed on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:09AM (#23573569)

I think you are vastly overstating the importance of apps.

Apple could easily remove the App Store tomorrow, sign deals with a dozen or so companies e.g. Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, Snap, Google, Microsoft etc and they would still sell devices.

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Re:Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out o... by mirchibajji on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:18AM (#23573672)

Isn't this part of the problem though? Apple _could_ remove the app store, and consumers would lose the apps that have existed so far, with no alternative.

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Re:Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out o... by kjakm on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:12AM (#23573618)

I think if you think back to 2007/8 and people had the choice of Android with millions of apps and a higher priced iOS ecosystem which only has some high profile apps so few people would choose iOS that it would quickly become a waste of money for FB/Twitter/MS to build their apps for it and it would die.

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Re:Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out o... by majewsky on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:37AM (#23574946)

In 2007/8 people were buying iPhones despite them not having an app store at all.

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Re:Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out o... by kjakm on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:38AM (#23574955)

There was no App Store for the first year, which I believe is a time when Android didn't exist. An app-less iPhone would not be able to compete with an app-store backed Android.

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