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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by bloppe on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:48PM (#33824792)
People can agree to disagree on the value of the walled garden. The problem is that "Just try other fields for a real commercial app" isn't really an option; not for a commercial app that wants to make money. Clearly this is not because the App Store offers a better developer ecosystem than other platforms. It just enjoys entrenched market share.
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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by ethanbond on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:08PM (#33824955)
Why do you think Apple has so much market share? Because people hate their products?
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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by counttheforks on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:21PM (#33825086)
Most users do not know they are facilitating Apple's extortion racket, nor have they thought about what that implies for them. They just see a shiny iphone and think "oooh I want that"
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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by jachee on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:38AM (#33827224)
The real genius is in why these customers want it. And that is, to paraphrase John Mulaney, “the everything about it”.
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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by p0pcult on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:12PM (#33824990)
Good marketing. Sticky ecosystem. For a while, they were extremely innovative (facetime/ipod/itunes/iphone). Network effects (facetime/imessage).
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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by mitchdoogle on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:18AM (#33832524)
It's because they have some great marketing. But people aren't choosing the app store. They choose a phone, and then they are forced to use the app store if they want to add any apps.
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