Apple’s monopoly around the App Store needs to end. Most apps are trash and require in app purchases and still have ads!
If iOS is a majority in the states, then it should be forced to allow side loading.
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Buying an iphone is voluntary.
They haven't a monopoly on smartphones.
We'll lose this case everytime.
I understand that.
Let us be adults and download apps that aren’t in the App Store.
I can download any app on Mac so what exactly is their excuse except for being greedy and hindering innovation.
Just look at their segmented financial statements,
Computers are a dying biz for them, and require that level of flexibility to have any users at all.
Meanwhile their smartphone business is stable,
With their fasting growing biz being app store & apple services such as news, music, tv.
They're protecting their shareholders, not their fringe userbase who cares.
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's lobbyism and consistent citing of security reasons is why it hasn't seen harsher treatment in this case. That the App Store is limiting and only profiting Apple hasn't exactly been a secret for forever now - and yet, they are still left untouched...in the states.
I really hope the EU has success; this could, potentially, maybe a ripple effect for other states or countries to sue on the same basis and enforce it respectively.
But, as with most things of these days - unless it happens, and actually does happen, it's not real.