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kandoh ,

Google | Microsoft | Apple

If we can break these companies into dozens of pieces we may be able to get back the world we lost

dual_sport_dork ,
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Now do Apple.

At least you can have a third party app store on Android. Samsung, Amazon, and Xiaomi have their own app stores on Android devices. And there’s F-Droid, too. But that’s flat out impossible on iOS still, right?

Apple has a larger share of the US smartphone market (55-some-odd percent vs. Androids’s 44) so not only do more people have Apple devices and are thus likely to be impacted by Apple’s stranglehold on their platform, but you literally cannot put any app on that platform without Apple’s approval and kowtowing to their policies for the same, in addition to them taking a mandatory cut. (Yes, I am aware of jailbroken devices which is a tiny statistically insignificant fractional corner of the iPhone user base). Apple has already provably stifled competition in the iPhone app space by, e.g., prohibiting any web browser that does not internally use the Safari rendering engine and previously banning emulators because they might allow “external code” to run on the device.

This case isn’t a “win” for anybody except one megacorporation over another. The crux of the issue originally was that Epic thought both Google and Apple were taking too big of a cut of their revenue, and didn’t want either tampering with their in-app microtransactions. Both Google and Apple retaliated by delisting Fortnite for having untaxed microtransactions in it, and then Epic sued both of them.

The decisions in the Epic vs. Google and Epic vs. Apple cases are basically opposites of each other, which makes zero sense when anyone could (and still can) sideload Fortnite onto an Android device if they wanted to and not deal with Google, but this is still not possible on an iPhone.

Username ,

Apple already lost in the EU and need to allow other app stores

Reverendender ,

“We’re going to tear the barriers down, it’s just the way it’s going to happen,” said Donato. “The world that exists today is the product of monopolistic conduct. That world is changing.” Donato will issue his final ruling in a little over two weeks.

The hero we need…

militaryintelligence ,

I’m sure this will be done with consumers in mind and won’t contribute to enshittification of the phone ecosystem, like launching a game on steam launching a whole new launcher. Nah, companies want what’s best for us

sunzu2 ,

Nah, companies want what's best for us

They never did but we were stupid/naive enough to believe corpo propaganda for decades and some still larp it.

umami_wasbi ,

How about the Google Play as system app? I would like to see that gone too. Just make every app stores normal apps. No special privileges.

NuXCOM_90Percent ,

The problem is that there are very good reasons to have specific authoritative app stores/package repositories. and it is a lot harder to have privileged and unprivileged accounts on a phone versus a computer.

But yeah. Something has to be done about that since it is the fundamental issue with mobile devices.

BlameTheAntifa ,

Almost like those systems were designed to be monopolistic and anti-competitive from the very beginning…

Altomes ,

I mean as someone running Graphene OS it hasnt been that difficult having the playstore being a sandboxed non system app

Brujones ,

I honestly haven’t noticed a difference.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

it is a lot harder to have privileged and unprivileged accounts on a phone versus a computer.

True. But it shouldn’t be.

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