Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competition

Re:Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competiti... by Hermitian909 on Monday June 19, 2023 @04:33PM (#36396129)

In many ways this is the same choice of wanting to live and do business in countries with a strong rule of law. I don't want other people to be able to opt-out of the law when they think it suits them, I want good ground rules that make things better.

Apple's walled garden has created an Apps market in the same way that governments create markets in the economy: by creating basic rules of conduct and commerce that allow people to feel safe enough to transact.

If side-loading appears I expect a race to the bottom as apps attempt to move people out of the App store and into a progressive web of predatory dark patterns that eventually kills all trust in the platform.

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Re:Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competiti... by ixwt on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:15PM (#36396562)

> If side-loading appears I expect a race to the bottom as apps attempt to move people out of the App store and into a progressive web of predatory dark patterns that eventually kills all trust in the platform.

Surely Android is an absolute cesspit at this point then.

I think you over estimate how many people actually utilize side-loading. To your other points, an overwhelming majority will never turn on side-loading if it's added. They will continue to use Apple's walled garden app market. The barriers to even install a side-loaded app will cause most to give up in frustration.

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Re:Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competiti... by Hermitian909 on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:43PM (#36397858)

> Surely Android is an absolute cesspit at this point then.

I mean... yes? Like, it's not the bad old days of Windows in the early 2000s, but people demonstrably don't want to spend money in the Play Store and what money they do spend is on big name brands.

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