Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right

Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by parkingrift on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:18AM (#31808936)

iOS has a 14% market share and Apple has absolutely no way to police content outside of the App Store. How did Apple ruin the Tumblr site? Why hasn’t pornhub met the same fate?

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by FinalBriefing on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:32AM (#31811541)

Or reddit. I don't see how reddit is any different from Tumblr in this case, and it has several apps. Has Apple loosened up their restrictions since Tumblr went under?

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by ig-88ms on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:23AM (#31808963)

"If you want to watch porn, buy an Android" - Steve Jobs.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by parkingrift on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:37AM (#31809073)

There’s porn on my phone, Mr. Jobs.

Where? Which app?!?

The app I believed is called “the internet.”

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by robgibbons on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:03AM (#31811187)

57.43% in the US

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by parkingrift on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:00PM (#31816665)

Does Facebook only operate in the US, now?

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by concinds on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:47PM (#31813275)

> Apple has absolutely no way to police content outside of the App Store

Wrong and naive. They have no direct way. Plenty of indirect ways.

> How did Apple ruin the Tumblr site?

Taleb's minority rule. Also read tumblr insiders' accounts of the porn ban that lay the blame much more on Apple than mainstream reporting does.

> Why hasn’t pornhub met the same

If Twitter/tumblr/reddit had no app, their mobile engagement would halve or worse. Not true for Pornhub.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by parkingrift on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:03PM (#31816697)

>If Twitter/tumblr/reddit had no app, their mobile engagement would halve or worse. Not true for Pornhub.

This fails at even cursory inspection. Reddit thrived for many years without an app. In fact Reddit has ruined their own website so that they can push/force people to their mobile app. The website is so popular that Reddit considers it a problem. A problem because it’s harder to monetize a website than a mobile app.

>Taleb's minority rule. Also read tumblr insiders' accounts of the porn ban that lay the blame much more on Apple than mainstream reporting does.

I’m sure the insiders at a failed business have everyone to blame but themselves.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by Salgat on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:29AM (#31811525)

iOS is at 50% market share of phones in the US.

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