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Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf] by simonh on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:44PM (#23920793)
I don’t see why that matters. Outside health and safety or merchantability, do we really want anyone dictating what features software can or cannot have, and how they may or may not be implemented? There is no requirement on Apple, or any other manufacturer to have an App Store at all, or to facilitate the installation of software from potentially competing firms, or any regulations requiring how they may or may not go about doing it. It’s not obvious to me that’s a route we really need to go down.
Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf] by damnyou on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:47PM (#23920813)
Yes, of course I want society to have a greater degree of democratic control over massive trusts like Apple!