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Re:Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tells investors Apple's DMA rules a... by AlexandrB on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @01:38PM (#39278494)
Forget CVEs. The App Store itself is a hive of scum and villainy[1]. How this stuff gets past review while email and calendar apps have to raise a public stink[2] to get in is beyond me.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/in-app_purchase_scams_in_...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/apples-response-hey-sh...

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Re:Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tells investors Apple's DMA rules a... by bbarnett on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @02:18AM (#39285541)
This isn't relevant for the legal premise of what the goal is. And more importantly, what people are told, and their expectations when purchasing.

Apple can easily argue that people full well know its ecosystem is a walled garden, and that it is a selling point.

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