Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire

Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire by threatofrain on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:11PM (#27240608)

Why do users care about this choice? What are some top experiences available to Android which aren't available to iOS customers? In fact, isn't it often the other way around? iOS gets things and Android doesn't?

Or are users seeing awful prices for the app store?

Where are Customers complaining the most?

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Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire by kbenson on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:11PM (#27241087)

> What are some top experiences available to Android which aren't available to iOS customers?

The Humble Bundle app allows you to install Android games you bought through humble bundles onto your Android phone. This allows you to buy bundles of games from developers at your own desired purchase price and give an amount of that purchase you choose to some charities of your choice.

It is, quite literally, used as another store and has the ability to install applications.

Many of the games I've gotten through that are also available on iOS, but you're unable to get iOS versions from this because there's no way to install that app nor a way for it to install other applications if you did, currently.

At least some of those developers would be happy to offer iOS versions as a bundle, or even give you access to choose iOS or Android in the same bundle, but there's no way to legitimately deliver these games to those customers.

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Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire by skohan on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:16PM (#27240649)

Well I can imagine if 3rd party stores were allowed, I could have a Steam client on an iPad for example, and share my library of games without paying for it a second time for iOS.

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Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire by pindab0ter on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:30PM (#27240791)

But there’s no Steam on Android either even though they do support third party app stores.

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Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire by Dah00n on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:03PM (#27241031)

There are rumours of Valve looking into Steam on Android and iOS.

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Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire by ThatPlayer on Saturday May 22, 2021 @04:16AM (#27244599)

>What are some top experiences available to Android which aren't available to iOS customers?

Recently, cloud gaming apps and paying for subscriptions. Google Stadia and Xbox Streaming are not allowed through the iOS Store. Netflix and Spotify(not sure about this one) do not allow you to pay for the subscription on their app because Apple asks for 30%.

Apple does not allow other browser rendering engines. So now every iOS browser is just a Safari wrapper and you're unable to do any sort of plug-in, like adblockers.

These features being blocked does not help customers. They only help Apple.

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