| You're missing the core value. It's not hacks, it's policy. Apple leverages their power against app devs and for their customers. - IAP, Apple ID, No Tracking, Notification Control, etc. In a world where Apple doesn't have leverage via the store they can't enforce these things. App devs would ship outside of the store and include whatever crap they wanted. This is a worse experience and there is no 'choice' available for the users to pick a better one. Apple is effectively acting as a legislator here, improving the quality of apps via their leverage in the interest of their users. It's a standard I'm willing to pay extra for and enforces good standards around privacy. The government law makers are largely owned by regulatory capture and lack of technical ability - why would we destroy the ability for one company that actually has incentives aligned with their users to enforce standards? If Apple loses that leverage we lose that high quality option - you can't have it both ways because the leverage is what allows the incentive control. People that don't care about it should use Android. |
If this is not FUD do you have a source that shows that thousands of poor grandmas that have Android were forced to side load Farmville and if this happened what was the damage (except that some bilionaires made a few less millions)