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Re:This app does not support the App Store’s private and sec... by FridayoLeary on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:04AM (#30244983)
Why don't we buy their security concern? We then declare the App Store a utility and divorce it from Apple entirely. Pay Apple off and have it run as a non-profit supported by a minimal tax from Apple and developers.
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Re:This app does not support the App Store’s private and sec... by unfocussed_mike on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:26AM (#30245271)
Apart from the fact that almost nobody could afford to pay them off!

(FWIW, I have always thought that media companies should collectively buy Twitter and run it as a utility)

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Re:This app does not support the App Store’s private and sec... by mcphage on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:48AM (#30245547)
> I have always thought that media companies should collectively buy Twitter and run it as a utility

That's a pretty good analogy—twitter is to media companies, as power plants are to power companies.

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Re:This app does not support the App Store’s private and sec... by scarface74 on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:52AM (#30245604)
Yes because government being in charge of technology could never go wrong.

You really don’t see the harm in government controlling distribution?

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