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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by ponker on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:21PM (#24192933)
If the app review process is supposed to ban objectionable content then why is Netflix allowed? What stops Netflix from putting bestiality porn on their service (and thus onto iDevices) any more than Microsoft putting objectionable games on xCloud? Simply, because Apple knows that iPhones are commercially unviable without Netflix.

Don’t accept the bullshit Apple offers for the App Store. It has always been about the benjamins, and to over a trillion dollars of success.

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by fomine3 on Monday August 17, 2020 @09:44PM (#24194468)
AppStore guideline is too arbitrary for Apple.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by zepto on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:49PM (#24193187)
It’s not just about objectionable content - it’s also about fraud.

Apps can be used for fraud in ways that video cannot.

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by fomine3 on Monday August 17, 2020 @09:42PM (#24194455)
So Safari is top attack surface, why don't they ban Safari?
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by zepto on Monday August 17, 2020 @09:54PM (#24194511)
Because people know the difference between websites and apps.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by 8note on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:14AM (#24196045)
Are there actually differences between websites and apps?

It's just some code you got off the internet and run on your phone

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by zepto on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:23AM (#24198894)
Two differences seem relevant here. Apps are reviewed by Apple, and are only able to use certain payment mechanisms.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by ponker on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:31PM (#24194689)
You’re giving the same answers that Apple Marketing would.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by zepto on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:47AM (#24195364)
Do you think it isn’t true? You seem to be just deflecting.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by ponker on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:28AM (#24196112)
I do not think it's true that Apple's decision to ban Microsoft's xCloud is to protect their customers from games that are actually trying to defraud players. If this is deflecting then I guess call me the Great Deflector.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by zepto on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:19AM (#24198848)
Do you think it’s true that users can tell the difference between Apps and Websites?

That’s the question you replied to without answering before.

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by ponker on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:57AM (#24200252)
Yes, I think they can tell the difference, but I don’t think that they’re somehow in an unguarded / safer frame of mind in apps, especially with how iOS will immediately transfer you to native apps. It’s an extraordinary claim by Apple that would need extraordinary evidence before I believed it.
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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by zepto on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:17PM (#24203060)
It’s a ordinary claim, completely supported by the often quoted point that people are much more willing to spend money on iOS than Android or the web.
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