Re:Ask HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem?
by Nullabillity on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:08PM
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But that's not what the discussion is about. Frigidaire doesn't try to limit you to only putting stuff you bought at Walmart into their fridges.
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Re:Ask HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem?
by kick on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:13PM
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Nor does Apple: you can have as many PWAs as you want. As JS is Turing complete, you can then have every sort of app. They've always encouraged PWAs.
Unless you want to legally force every company to surrender their source code (which I enthusiastically would support), there's no legal basis for Apple not being able to have their proprietary feature phone locked down.
Though if you'd like, you can look at Keurig, which does limit what you can put into it to "only Keurig products" or one of the millions of other things that limit what you can put into it.
Re:Ask HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem?
by anoncake on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:19PM
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> Though if you'd like, you can look at Keurig, which does limit what you can put into it to "only Keurig products" or one of the millions of other things that limit what you can put into it.
Whatabout...