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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by tptacek on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:35PM (#24190297)
This is a boring, off-topic response. You can litigate the entire concept of app review anywhere, and you can attach a response like this to practically any comment supporting any app review rule. A better response would take direct aim at the guideline this comment is referring to.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by dessant on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:40PM (#24190357)
The main issue is not the app review process, but the missing alternatives to the App Store on iPhones, and I think arguing about more just App Store rules is not the solution, but a distraction to our eroding right to control our own devices.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by Ansil849 on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:46PM (#24190416)
> our eroding right to control our own devices.

If you want to frame this as an ideological debate over freedom of user choice, instead of a very specific debate about a very specific App Store rule (even though the latter, and not the former, is what the email in the OP is about), then sure: you have the choice to select a device with a tightly-controlled ecosystem. You also have the choice not to. It was your choice to obtain this device, knowing full well that it would be tightly controlled. Or if you didn't know, you also have the right to return the device and no longer use it.

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by askafriend on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:43PM (#24190382)
> the missing alternatives to the App Store on iPhones

Get an Android phone and use the Play Store (or any of the 3rd party Android stores). The magic of a smartphone isn't only on iPhone and there's nothing you can do on iPhone that you can't do elsewhere.

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by heavyset_go on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:07PM (#24192787)
Third party app stores on Android are purposely hindered in their functionality by Google. Restrictions in Android mean that they cannot install apps in the background, autoupdate apps or batch install apps. The Play Store can do all of those things, however.

Apple and Google have an effective duopoly on the mobile and tablet app distribution markets.

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by m-p-3 on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:09PM (#24191436)
Let me know when you find a decent alternative to Hindenburg [1] that work as well and that field reporter might want to actually use on Android.

[1]: https://hindenburg.com/products/hindenburg-field-recorder

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by askafriend on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:32PM (#24191681)
There are a lot of opinions packed in your description of the app - I'm sure there are apps that meet reasonable bar for replacement.
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