[mycocola]

- Mad Max is not a great example of anarchy, as the last couple of movies featured a government led by an autocrat (haven't seen the other ones)

- The Play Store being bad does not mean the App Store is not also bad

- How do you know most of the world likes the authority of the App Store? Is it not more likely that most of the world are ignorant of its rules, and assumes a free and open marketplace?

[jiggawatts]

A gaggle of feuding warlords a government does not make.

> The Play Store being bad

The Play Store is actually merely “slightly worse” than the App Store. The problem was that my uncle in law was using some other “alternative app store” because Android allows this and then … inevitably … some lazy or corrupt app vendors encourage their use or outright require it. Or a phone manufacturer will try to make an extra 50c per device by inserting themselves (or a “valued partner”) between users and legitimate providers.

You’ll see arguments for this, right here, espoused vehemently by people that must really, desperately get away from oversight.

> free and open marketplace

That’s not a good thing.

[seec]

The problem with that argument is that people are free to choose for themselves and asking for authoritarian control of a whole system just because some people might be dumb enough to fuck up is completely crazy.

By this standard, people shouldn't be allowed to drive because sometime they fuck up by drinking and/or driving too fast.

Everybody is responsible for their own life, own choices, etc. I'm amazed that a company that is supposedly progressive liberal can get away with such bullshit.

But at the same time, I know very well the pseudo-progressives are always authoritarians who think they know better and want to impose their morals/rules on everyone, stealing agency from people while pretending to be doing good. Apple is a perfect example.