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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by jobs_throwaway on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:11PM (#39782241)
The point of the suit is, they should be free to make that choice on their iPhone. No one is going to remove the app store, and if you love sucking from the teat of Apple so much, you can continue to do so in an environment where there are competing app stores
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by Spivak on Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:31PM (#39784653)
Your point is fine but you have to at least acknowledge the dynamic that users are takers of software and companies have every incentive to take their popular apps off the app store.

It's gonna be the first thing Facebook does, and maybe that's fine but it's going to reduce consumer choice. You won't be able to have the Facebook but with the tracking restrictions anymore because it's bad for their bottom line. I don't really know if there's a good answer for how to strike this balance but it seems drastic that people want it to be illegal to offer a platform where all participants have to play by the platform's rules.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by _aavaa_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:59PM (#39785477)
What tracking restrictions do you refer to that are implemented through app-store policies that are not (or cannot) be implemented through OS level restrictions?
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