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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by bennysomething on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:00PM (#26999259)
How do apple "screw" users. Anyone buying Apple products is making choice: keep my money or spend on a thing I find beneficial. I think anyone would be forgiven for calling this a first world problem. Getting screwed usually means having money stolen. Here it just means demanding someone else's services cheaper.
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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by simion314 on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:15PM (#27000147)
>How do apple "screw" users.

Apple forbids you to put a link or a text message in your app to inform the users that they could pay for a subscription or product on a webpage.

So how can we spin "forcing developers not to inform users so users pay more and Apple makes more money" in such a way where this is not "screwing users". If I was a fanboy I would say that "most iOS users are poor old grandmas and to much information and options is too much for them AND for sure the grandma hit I agree on the TOS where Apple says that they force users to hide useful information"

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