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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by numpad0 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:27PM (#39783256)
Why don't twitter. com just do the super apps w/ e-commerce thing? It's financial regulations, not App Store regulations, isn't that the case?

What are challenges for implementing such "payment" system on iOS that can transfer, say Monopoly money vs real USD? Aren't those almost entirely legal or compliance matters for very good reasons? The Alaskan 737 MAX 9 landed largely intact thanks to still-working parts of regulations and we all value that.

So why not they just do that? Or CAN'T they?

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:30PM (#39783293)
> Why don't twitter. com just do the super apps w/ e-commerce

X, the company formerly known as twitter, fairly explicitly plans to, they are just taking time to pivot, in part because they don’t seem to have any real clear roadmap from where they are to where they want to be.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by dwighttk on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:59PM (#39784337)
>fairly explicitly plans to,

>don’t seem to have any real clear roadmap

not your fault, but that's pretty funny

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:59PM (#39785471)
I see the apparent contradiction, but the goal has been made pretty explicit, but from the outside the plan seems to be missing.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by c0pium on Friday March 22, 2024 @10:41AM (#39791215)
Sounds like you meant fairly explicit goal, not fairly explicit plan.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by Qwertious on Friday March 22, 2024 @10:45AM (#39791238)
s/plans/desires/
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by entropicdrifter on Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:05PM (#39784394)
And also because they're in a technical quagmire of their own creation
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by nomel on Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:20PM (#39784554)
> And also because they're in a technical quagmire of their own creation

Could you expand on that?

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by microtherion on Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:59PM (#39784918)
What you call "fairly explicitly plans to" I call "supposedly is working on, according to statements by its owner, who has a history of vaporware announcements".
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 21, 2024 @07:09PM (#39785543)
Fair enough.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by trothamel on Thursday March 21, 2024 @09:42PM (#39786613)
But also having a history of announcements that take longer than expected, and come true. (Reusable rockets come to mind.)
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