Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr...
by kolinko on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:25PM
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I, for one, keep choosing iPhone exactly for this reason - I want only apple to control the app review process.
Without this, you’d have every single major company pishing their own installers with a ton of crapware on top of them.
To give an example - Epic on Windows requires you to install their own store, with their own update system and notifications, plus ads showing each time you open up their game.
I don’t want this on my phone - battery aside, I want the device to be 100% secure, and such crapware has a poor track record of security.
I’m really for strong antitrust laws - Google and Facebook are monopolosts who abuse their position. But in case of the phones, both users and devs have a choice - they can use either Apple or Google. Unless both companies are guilty of the same thing (and in this case they are not), how this is an issue?
Without this, you’d have every single major company pishing their own installers with a ton of crapware on top of them. To give an example - Epic on Windows requires you to install their own store, with their own update system and notifications, plus ads showing each time you open up their game.
I don’t want this on my phone - battery aside, I want the device to be 100% secure, and such crapware has a poor track record of security.
I’m really for strong antitrust laws - Google and Facebook are monopolosts who abuse their position. But in case of the phones, both users and devs have a choice - they can use either Apple or Google. Unless both companies are guilty of the same thing (and in this case they are not), how this is an issue?