Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ...
by _aavaa_ on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:13PM
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This is changing the goal posts. Whatever the state of “pre-iPhone mobile platforms” is irrelevant. We are discussing about general software distribution.
iPhones nowadays are much closer to functionality and power to (or significantly eclipsing) normal PCs that people have.
And the distribution of software for normal PCs has none of the issue you describe.
Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ...
by t-writescode on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:55PM
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What world are you coming from? The story for buying windows apps on the internet has been pretty fine for a long, long while; and, compatibility hasn't been any problem at all, in my experience.
Further, since most things were shareware, you could just _test_ the software on your machine ahead of time.
Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ...
by ubercow13 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:22PM
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That is more because payment processing in general has come a long way. Buying mac or Windows software from a developer's site using Stripe or even Apple Pay or similar doesn't fucking suck much more than using the App Store.
And it fucking sucked. Finding apps was hit or miss, there was no guarantee an app would run on your device model, and payments were ridiculous. Apple's App Store is far from perfect but it is vastly better than the absolute clown shoes of buying mobile apps for pre-iPhone mobile platforms.