Winckle wrote:Green Gecko wrote:I think this is going in an overall positive direction as the testimonies are making it pretty clear apple are eating a huge amount of developers revenue despite smart phones very much being not only a "general purpose device" but the *primary* daily computing device for most people. These devices should be open by default.
I don't agree with the Google revenue take either by the way but Google don't manufacture the vast majority of devices and the OS is open source.
Apple make plenty plenty of money selling their hardware and closed OS.
The difference being that with Google you can install applications which can then update themselves independantly of the Play Store.
I wasn't aware APKs could update themselves.
Take grcade for example, I was pissed Google insisted on a fresh £30 or whatever it was play store license merely because they updated their ToCs so I didn't do it. Obviously that app wasn't bringing us new traffic or members but a few users or some organisation can side load no problem, the user just has to click yes to "do you trust this source" etc like any other application on any other device besides iphones.
Apple are completely and utterly obsessed with end to end control and delivery. They always have been. They use pretty design and oftentimes fairly weak functionality to win the hearts of consumers and then strawberry float them over as much as possible.
It's not to help consumers have a consistent experience as even their own devices aren't consistent and nuke themselves with bogged down updates and normal rates of hardware failure and software bugs. It's to make as much money as possible from the creative economy of the platform that occurred and will occur indpedently of them, because that's how technology adoption works. It's hardly as if a service like Apple Music for example treats artists in the traditional sense any better. I consider programmers and game developers artists too because they make stuff. Art and craft is whatever humans make averse to nature or reflecting on it or in tandem with it. Why should apple get such a fat wedge of that? Consumers own the device, they own the hardware, they have licensed the ecosystem (the OS), they're even paying for the internet connection that delivers it.
Once the monopoly has been established and the innovator or whatever has been justly compensated these things need to open up. Choice is good for consumers. Competition is good. That's a core tenet of capitalism. This late stage gooseberry fool needs to get taken down a peg.
Tldr strawberry float the system
