It has for a long time been a dual culture, it doesn't take long to run into this when doing web dev work. Applogists love to trot this line out when trying to defend their favourite trillion dollar company, and fail to see the effects it has on a much wider ecosystem.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/250918/apples-revenue-fr...
Apple charges developers and users "for our user's security" (the App store is the vast majority of service income) about 27 billion dollars per year for it. In fact, this income is the ONLY new product Apple has made since the iPhone ...
Security is a major reason I changed to an iPhone from Android (I also think Apple beats Google for privacy). I'm definitely no fanboi (actually I've disliked Apple as a company after ][). I'm really impressed with some of Apple's security features - especially the custom hardware-backed measures.
I'm unsure the financial argument makes much sense.
A browser is hard to make secure, and a third party browser would need access to deeper Apple security information than App developers currently get (Apple only allows their JavaScript for scripting at present).
I do hope that we get a competitor browser (I remember Microsoft Internet Explorer), but I also hope that Apple manage to do it without fucking up security.
That's the argument apple makes. And yet the biggest app store restrictions are about payment to apps (only allowed through apple, with a 30% cut, slightly reduced). Besides, I don't really see a big difference between Android and iPhones.
> I'm unsure the financial argument makes much sense.
That's the argument apple makes. Despite this being the only growth area in their financial reports, while everything else on their financial report is going down.
> I do hope that we get a competitor browser
That's the argument apple makes, while preventing competing browsers from coming onto the platform.
The govts need to bring a 11% revenue penalty via anti-trust laws. Then's when it'll start showing effect.
kazinator•6mo ago
slowmovintarget•6mo ago
Agree about locked-down ecosystems.