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Re:Home Screen Advantage by colonwqbang on Monday February 26, 2024 @03:34AM (#39508853)
But this is exactly the kind of behaviour targeted by the DMA. Artificial restrictions in the functionality of iphone are inserted to drive sales of an unrelated product. It's page one of the Monopolist Playbook.
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Re:Home Screen Advantage by tambourine_man on Monday February 26, 2024 @04:32AM (#39509240)
Maintaining a developer toolkit for Windows and Linux is a major hurdle.

If they intentionally prevent a third party Xcode-compatible implementation from existing, that’s monopolistic behavior. If they don’t want to provide it themselves, it’s a rightful business choice and theirs to make, in my book.

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Re:Home Screen Advantage by boxed on Monday February 26, 2024 @05:10AM (#39509497)
I noticed that you moved the goalpost. Quite a bit. "Cannot" to "need a mac" is an enormous move.

If you think sales of macs are affected in a measurable way by the fact that xcode runs on it you are delusional.

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