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by scarface74 1153 days ago
Points 1 and 2 don’t really make sense (ie doesn’t really make a point at all). What exactly are you saying?

> their policy about 30% cut on anything sold through apps. Sorry, but that's just going too far

Only things digital items. 80% of all App Store revenue comes from in app purchases of loot boxes and pay to win games (according to the Epic trial).

> their charging policies (meaning what their devices allow for charging and how fast

What does this even mean.
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EMIRELADERO 1153 days ago
What I got from the comment was that the overall intention and push behind sideloading, both by the community and what the EU mandates, is to not be bound by Apple's policies for appmaking, not just to use your own distribution infrastructure.
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musictubes 1153 days ago
As far as I can tell the main use case for side loading that people are making inevitably boils down to piracy. Emulators, torrents, cracked software. 95% of the talk about “freedom” on Android revolves around Vanced and other kinds of piracy.

I’m glad to see people talking about alternative browsers for PWAs (yuck) and open source projects but I am thoroughly cynical about the motivations of the vast majority of people advocating for side loading on iOS. I worry that this ability to pirate like you can on Android will result in degradation in app quality in the App Store.

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scarface74 1153 days ago
> I worry that this ability to pirate like you can on Android will result in degradation in app quality in the App Store.

Is it possible for quality on the App Store to get any lower?

80% of App Store revenue comes from Pay to Win games (according to the Epic trial). Most of the other apps monetize through subscriptions for things like streaming services or don’t charge money at all.

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candiodari 1151 days ago
That brings me to another thing I'd like to add. Over the years I've paid for quite a few apps on the app store that PREDATED most of the "monetization" of the app store. And the social shit and the login and account and ... shit that games have now.

Essentially all of these have disappeared from "my apps" and I can't install them anymore. I want them back.

And now this emulator comes out with the super monkey ball that my dad bought for me on my initial ipod (not ipad, pod). I want that game back on my current ios devices, and that one, with essentially no interruptions to the gameplay, not the current shittified version.

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scarface74 1150 days ago
The same happen with the original Tetris and Angry Birds. They did bring Angry Birds back as Angry Birds Classic.
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