Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ...
by cafed00d on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:16AM
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Third party apps have been dominant on PCs and Macs on the open web for a decade prior to the iPhone. Third party apps such as FB.Connor even Spotify.com still run on the iPhone built on HTML5. Of course, I will concede that the desktop publishing industry and the banking, finance, spreadsheet industries benefited from native computer apps in the decades prior to that.
Counter to the narrative of Windows phone’s failure, why were BlackBerry and Nokia successful despite not having third party apps at the scale iPhone does?
Third party apps add value to the iPhone — you’re right. They can also add confusion, adware, and bundleware if allowed to reign free; a curated, expensive gatekeeper is the cheap way to keep the crappy third party apps out; not a foolproof way, just a cheap way.
Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ...
by ThrowawayR2 on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:40PM
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> "why were BlackBerry and Nokia successful despite not having third party apps at the scale iPhone does?"
They were in the process of dying around the same time as Windows Phone was and all for the same reason: the iOS/Android duopoly.
But even if we take this absurd argument at face value, it's still wrong: third party applications add value to iPhone and make them worth bying. If you could not install games, bank app, etc. On an iphone, iPhones would be useless and noone would buy them in the face of competition. The whole reason Windoes Phone died is that there were no apps. iPhone would simply follow