Re:The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct...
by spiderfarmer on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:13PM
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If Apple decided to implement the Push Notification API for Mobile Safari, it would be very beneficial to the users of my forum websites. Now I’m forced to build an app, while my forums users are all happy with the website as it is. They just want push notifications and I’m convinced Apple is holding that back on purpose. I bet there are internal emails about that issue as well.
Re:The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct...
by scarface74 on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:55PM
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I hate that half the request for push notifications are used for websites to spam me.
Re:The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct...
by spiderfarmer on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:39AM
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True. Apple could make it impossible to request permission. I’d be okay. As long as users who want it have a way to enable it.
Re:The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct...
by ac29 on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:11PM
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> That only affects the developer, not the consumer. What does the consumer care about who gets paid the fees.
I care if it means the applications are ~40% more expensive than need be.
That only affects the developer, not the consumer. What does the consumer care about who gets paid the fees.
I keep seeing the App Store framed as a consumer issue rather than a developer one when it's not. The App Store is no question pro-consumer especially when you consider the fact that the "open" web has essentially devolved into using every available toolkit to track users across the web.
I'm not at all interested in giving Facebook yet another platform where they can run amok with native hardware. I'm not interested in cleaning off Bonzai Buddy off my parents and friends phones.