Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ...
by skyde on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:11PM
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You are right but why not more people push for « right to sideload “ ?
It would be easy to force apple to let you install android on the hardware you paid for (the physical phone).
But forcing them to keep their OS backward compatible with some api used by some sideloaded app ... might be hard.
Apple doesn’t take 30% of anything using their phones. They take 30% of anything installed and bought using their walled garden/app store/api/etc. Similar to Windows store, Xbox, ps, steam, etc etc.
I used to be annoyed at Nintendo and Sega requiring their cut, but got used to it.
What makes it different is that Apple isn’t a monopoly. You can use Android or PCs or whatever.
If we want this to change, we probably need some version of right to repair that forces “right to sideload.”