It’s time to free ourselves from ‘Big Tech’ monopoly

Re:It’s time to free ourselves from ‘Big Tech’ monopoly by zepto on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:42PM (#26229497)

Yeah - it was vastly more difficult to deal with that patchwork than just uploading to the App Store, and the friction for consumers meant much worse sales performance.

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Re:It’s time to free ourselves from ‘Big Tech’ monopoly by jariel on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:54PM (#26229680)

This is false, and tons of software providers do it already today.

For smaller shops in an open market, they'll be a ton of vendors willing to do the 'full stack' checkout experience for a fraction of what Apple/Google charge.

For one, Shopify will open up a 'Software Goods' version of their front end to manage digital inventory and that's that.

$20/month.

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Re:It’s time to free ourselves from ‘Big Tech’ monopoly by 908B64B197 on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:12PM (#26229916)

> For smaller shops in an open market, they'll be a ton of vendors willing to do the 'full stack' checkout experience for a fraction of what Apple/Google charge.

I suppose they also provide the ecosystem of devices and the extremely valuable higher-income market segment Apple targets.

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Re:It’s time to free ourselves from ‘Big Tech’ monopoly by zepto on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:09PM (#26229871)

This is not false.

Presumably Shopify will do nothing to scan the software for malware, build a privacy framework, deal with incremental downloading of content, etc. etc.

The App Store is not just a bunch of urls with a paywall in front of it.

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