Re:Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
by hota_mazi on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:09PM
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> This has caused tech giants like Facebook considerable hurt. For example, the fact that they have to have those embarrassing privacy labels on their app in the App Store.
They have the exact same embarrassing label on the Play store, and guess what, their Android app is also on that store. Even though they don't have to be.
The reason is that they have a lot more reach on a store than as a sideload.
The difference is that Google gives a lot more freedom to developers and businesses than Apple does.
> Even though you might vehemently disagree with Apple, I respect the right of users to choose whether they want a restricted but more private experience, or less restricted but less private experience.
That's a straw man. Nobody argued this.
We're just calling Apple's monopolistic, hegemonic behavior for what it is. As is Epic as we speak.
This has caused tech giants like Facebook considerable hurt. For example, the fact that they have to have those embarrassing privacy labels on their app in the App Store. Or that they have to present that prompt asking for permission to use the advertising identifier.
Right now, even though this hurts tech Giants, this benefits users. Google draws less than 1/10th of the data from an iPhone user as they do an Android user.
If sideloading was enabled, this check on their privacy rules would no longer exist because they could force users to sideload, which means they would immediately do so, and users would lose the benefits that Apple‘s restrictions give them.
If users want to sideload, They should buy an android where this check does not exist, and they can be on the less restrictive Google play store where it doesn’t matter. If they want Apple to constrain the power of apps to spy on them, they buy an iPhone.
Even though you might vehemently disagree with Apple, I respect the right of users to choose whether they want a restricted but more private experience, or less restricted but less private experience.