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Re:Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment ... by clusterfish on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:29PM (#30213528)
Users have no choice, the market is a duopoly, and Android app store has all the same problems (because it's a duopoly). You can't feasibly escape platform tax on mobile.
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Re:Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment ... by Retric on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:37PM (#30213642)
You don’t need to use Google’s android App Store on Android.
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Re:Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment ... by AnthonyMouse on Friday February 04, 2022 @05:09PM (#30214022)
They make it sufficiently arduous to do otherwise that the bar is higher than what ordinary people can reach. The proof that this is not the case will be when a single store has less than half of the Android app market.
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Re:Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment ... by konradx on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:25PM (#30215576)
With Android, you can at least enable "Install [insecure] apps from 3. parties" or the like. You can then install whatever you like. Just like on most computers. Remember to disable the option after install .
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Re:Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment ... by dwaite on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:52PM (#30217092)
Why is the expectation that regulations will force Apple to set the bar lower than what Google has already done?
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Re:Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment ... by charcircuit on Friday February 04, 2022 @06:29PM (#30215004)
Installing fdroid was really easy. I don't remember it being arduous.
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Re:Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment ... by paulryanrogers on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:46PM (#30216200)
It's a pain to keep FDroid installed apps updated. Silent background updates are impossible. Yet Play Store can do it.
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Re:Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment ... by charcircuit on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:16PM (#30216382)
Is clicking on the notification and then clicking install that hard to do?
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Re:Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment ... by paulryanrogers on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:36PM (#30217493)
It's friction. IME the updates often fail too. Then nag again and again.
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