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Interesting that this rejection came out in the same week, maybe the same day, as the EU opened its anti-trust investigations into the company. Obviously there’
by hellofunk 6y ago
Interesting that this rejection came out in the same week, maybe the same day, as the EU opened its anti-trust investigations into the company. Obviously there’s some smoke somewhere. I say this as someone who has exclusively used Apple for over one decade. I am very very bothered by this monopolistic evolution of the company.
- SCdF 6y ago> exclusively used Apple for over one decade ... monopolistic evolution of the company. Apple have been pulling this kind of thing for the entire lifetime of iOS at least, which is now at ~15 years. So it's less of an evolution and more of a constant. Nothing has changed, nothing will change. Apple will make arbitrary and unfair rules that suit it, and people will complain but ultimately stick with Apple, and the cycle will repeat.
- hellofunk 6y agoIt has definitely been gradually getting worse. There’s no question about that. Maybe some tendencies have always been there, but they’re being manifested at a much more aggressive rate in very recent years.
- SCdF 6y agoSo this exact rule, that to charge money for your app or from your app you must give Apple a cut, has been there since 2011. This is not new, and apps getting caught in this seem to bubble up every few months.
- JustinVx 6y agoThe only way it can change is if the EU forces Apple to do so.
- doe88 6y ago> Interesting that this rejection came out in the same week, maybe the same day, as the EU opened its anti-trust investigations into the company. Day of reckoning is coming. Monopolistic per se or not I think it's their greed and hubris that will be their downfall (on the matter).
- vl 6y agoWhile I don’t care about evolution of the company, I’m really pissed that I can’t buy Kindle book on a $1000 dollar device I’ve paid for.
- codecamper 6y agoYou are a fashion victim to pay 1000 bucks for an Apple phone. For 200-400 bucks you could have a great Android phone.
- ponker 6y ago... that gets security updates for 2 years.
- kbenson 6y agoYou can probably buy 3 different androids over for the same cost and have support for the same period. Hmm.
- baq 6y agothe problem is this is simply not true. i've been using android phones for the better part of the decade. last year (2019) i've inherited an iphone 6s and the reason i've upgraded this year (to an inherited 8) is that i managed to crack the screen. show me an android phone that has 5 years of support.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y agoI have always bought cheap androids and power is never a problem, js heavy sites die under flagship phones I've owned too. You most certainly don't have to pay 1000 for a phone, it's insane amount of money for a device.
- karlshea 6y agoThe problem with a $200-400 Android phone is that it runs Android. I don’t want to use Android, so it looks like that won’t work for me? Not sure where fashion enters into it?
- ponker 6y agoI am not going to quit using Apple but I would fully support heavy regulations against it. These would obviously come from the EU as US regulators are toothless.
- tarsinge 6y agoI don't really understand the monopoly accusation. The EU investigation is related to Apple Pay, iOS market share is less than 30% there.
- sleepyhead 6y agoThere are two EU investigations. One for Apple Pay (NFC) and the other is about Apple Store policies.