Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers

Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by ehsankia on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:47PM (#26965332)

This kind of logic is so annoying. If it's so easy / good for profit / advantageous / smart business, then why doesn't Apple do it?

The whole "they only do X for profit" is such a lazy argument, because it can be used to argue any side of the argument if you try hard enough.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by madeofpalk on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:23AM (#26967419)

  idk, Apple does have open source? Swift is *incredibly* open, but probably a outlier for Apple. It's operating systems aren'tt, but kernal is (right?).

None of these companies are open sourcing their core competencies. Google Search isn't open source.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by jbverschoor on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:44AM (#26967867)

LLVM has been pretty import for Apple. Webkit has been important. BSD has been important, but afaik they don't really contribute a lot back anymore, although Darwin is open source.

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