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Re:Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competiti... by realusername on Monday June 19, 2023 @04:22PM (#36396025)
> Accept it. You don’t like that you have to Apple? Tell your customer to use a web browser

That's exactly like I've done, I do tell people that iphones are legacy devices and to buy something else in the future if they want a better experience, I won't port anything on it and discontinued everything I had the appstore.

I'm not sure that answer would make you happy either though.

Re:Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competiti... by martimarkov on Monday June 19, 2023 @06:52PM (#36397429)
It actually does!! I’m very happy to use web apps.

As for legacy - pretty sure the markets, users and developers will disagree with you

Plus my experience on Android has been terrible. BUT some ppl like it. I don’t go and shit on them and tell them it’s terrible. I write my apps to support Android as much as possible. If there are issues I’d prioritise iOS but that’s because it’s my platform of choice. The same way you have the right. AND that is fine

Re:Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competiti... by realusername on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @03:13AM (#36400696)
> As for legacy - pretty sure the markets, users and developers will disagree with you

That's fine then, everyone has their point of view. I've used their platform to deploy the app before I discontinued it to make it Android-only so I do have a real experience on how bad the dev platform is, I'm not just judging randomly.

I also used the phone itself for a year and it was hands down the worst mobile experience I ever had but this is more subjective, unlike the dev experience which I do think is objectively terrible.