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Re:When Apple Comes Calling, ‘It’s the Kiss of Death’ by gbil on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @08:00AM (#35699276)
Equally superficial reading of this ends up to the following statement: Apple is building it's ecosystem on developers. Without developers Apple wouldn't be able to build an ecosystem and find customers for it
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Re:When Apple Comes Calling, ‘It’s the Kiss of Death’ by ninkendo on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @09:40AM (#35700318)
This isn’t necessarily true. You can actually have quite a useful device by only using Apple’s software. As a customer, I don’t need third party apps on my iPhone. (There are only one or two third party apps I actually use, and my phone would still be 95% as useful without them.)
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Re:When Apple Comes Calling, ‘It’s the Kiss of Death’ by prettyStandard on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @02:54PM (#35704993)
I assume that other 5% is the internet?
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Re:When Apple Comes Calling, ‘It’s the Kiss of Death’ by ninkendo on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:31PM (#35709109)
No?

I use safari as my web browser, which is written by Apple.

I didn’t say “no third party content of any kind”, and this discussion is about app stores after all. Apple not having an App Store would still mean I get to keep safari, so the phone is still 95% as useful. I’d miss my baby feeding tracking app and… not much else.

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