AppStore controls are one of the biggest restrictions on free speech on the internet and somehow we don’t acknowledge it. The reason it’s such a big point of control is that competing with the duopoly is nearly impossible. It’s market capture.
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we all know, cant get any VC in the valley if you got that green bubble tho. thats why jack and friends, theyre only on iphone while tryina tell us to work on opensource and not even start companies. the dissonance is disturbing.
It's restricted AF
Well when people mention that using Android is better everyone loses their minds and makes it into some weird thing
I still prefer an iphone. I just can’t use it to release the software I want to release which is sad and frustrating.
Can you still jailbreak latest iOS? Would that enable you to build/install custom apps without permission?
You can but its super technical and noone will do it
Especially at the price point they sell them for! I am a hater of all things apple :) my go-to statement is: they make beautiful hardware, but some of the worst software I have ever encountered. Also, the fact that the amount of blatant security vulnerabilities they have had with their walled garden approach and small hardware footprint is laughable. Okay.... End rant sorry 😄
More recently, the only thing I'm hearing iPhone users say they don't like about android is that it doesn't have imessage or whatever it is called. I think Apple makes raw SMS/android messages a different color that users don't like. Marketing genius. They make the user feel like an inside crowd.
Is the rejection due to some perceived free speech issue?
More often with apps that include things like zaps, it’s confusion around payment rules on one side or the other.
That’s often a useful excuse.
This is the primary reason I don't use Apple products
How is it restricting? I haven't used one of the two mentioned app stores in 10 years.
It's the public that is kept dumb and lazy that is the problem.
The power of the web and PWA in there to save us all, always have web clients