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by api
4337 days ago
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> We've never been freer as we are now on iOS and Android, That's the part I just can't fathom. You do not control your device. You have to hack it to get "root." There is one app store, and all apps sold within that store must give a percentage (30%?) to the lord of the app store kingdom. The app store can remove any app for almost any reason, and can in some cases even go out and uninstall that app from users' systems. At the very least it can be made uninstallable for new devices and users at any time. How is that not absolutely feudal? How is that at all free? We're getting way off into areas not relevant to the OP, but I'm just in a continuous state of amazement at peoples' acceptance of this. It almost seems as if people have been brainwashed into not seeing it... it's like that scene in that old film "They Live" where the guys have the fist fight over putting on the glasses. When I talk about this I feel like that. "Put on the damn glasses!" "No! Mobile is the future!" Am I out of my mind? |
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Anyway, it's all about relative freedom. The 30% tax is not the 5% royalty of yesteryear.
$100 to push to the App Store is not the $30k to licence developer kits of 10 years ago.
A market of hundreds of millions is significantly higher than anything ever seen before.
The level of censorship that ecosystem owners exert is much, MUCH lower than before e.g. http://www.jjmccullough.com/Nintendo.php
iOS' ecosystem is experience rapid Glasnost. Android's is tightening up. Both are immensely more free than anything else, historically and presently. This is a question you have to look at over time.
How is this not exciting, and at the same time, completely compatible with the existing and unthreatened harder-core PC market?
I think the OP's problem is we're living in a dark age of gaming, much like the Atari bust in the mid 80s. New ideas will arrive and fix the gaming aspect of this.