Talyen42

please list smartphones i can buy that have no suppliers with any history of human rights issues thank you

Apple's supply chain is more than 1,000 companies. Do you really think Apple has the expertise and personnel to replicate what 1,000 companies have spent decades mastering? Not likely.

No company on earth has ever been able to make a smartphone entirely themselves, and no company ever will, although i'd like to be proven wrong.

apple makes 1/100th the revenue from ads that google does, so it's very clear which is abusing user data to do so

It's the most popular watch on the planet now, so... lots of people?

You can wear it for 22.5 hours/day and charge for 90mins

Games can have stores, marketplaces, platforms, and other arbitrary interactive stuff running inside of them, whereas movies and songs are more or less functionally identical in technical capability (although it would be funny if Netflix put a subscribe button inside a free movie to bypass Apple!)

Amazon didn't cut a deal, you can't subscribe to prime video in the app without using Apple's IAP payment system. You can only subscribe outside the app.

The reviewer (a lowly employee just trying to follow a process) clearly made a mistake and did not follow Apple's guidelines. Manual review processes have plenty of mistakes, resubmit it.

Most reviewers would not have rejected this, i'm sure.

Because it's Apple's phone, Apple's operating system, Apple's app store, not the developers. Does Disney allow lewd content on Disney+ or at Disneyland?

All of them have one thing in common: they want to be seen as "new tech" companies, not dying older companies.

Microsoft wants to be seen up against apple, google Oracle wants to be seen up against AWS Walmart wants to be seen up against amazon e-commerce

From a shareholder management of company funds perspective, I think it's a stupid decision, but as executives within these companies looking to make a name for themselves, people advocate for stupid flashy acquisitions and imagine seamless synergies with ecommerce and advertising existing product lines.

In most cases, according to studies, large acquisitions seem to harm the company long-term.

that's not what apple is doing

they're only revoking epic's devtools, and ability to make NEW unreal engine versions, old UE versions are unaffected

Can't wait to troubleshoot my parents iphones after courts force them to allow arbitrary code installs from any source without apple's curation.

The whole value proposition of iOS is they BLOCK CRAP.

I don't.

I really don't want to troubleshoot my parents iPhones after they install arbitrary code from the Alternative App Store #12 after clicking on a banner ad run by an anonymous chinese entity. Holy shit.

the only reason I recommend iphones to family members is because they are closed platforms, why are we trying to take away that option, a valid option to want to exist in an open marketplace, to make sure developers get more cash?

there's no inherent reason all platforms must allow arbitrary code to be executed, that's a very draconian rule to impose on the software world (ironically)

yeah, I get that, and the only reason I picked an iphone for my grandpa is because it's a curated closed platform. i'm glad it exists as an option, and it's not the most popular one, but it seems insane to make it illegal to create a closed software platform

Can someone explain to me why Apple's 30% tax is so different from every B&M retailer providing shelf space? I can't sell stuff in walmart without paying Walmart

"But you can't sell apps on iOS outside the app store"

I can't sell stuff on ANY platform/device without the permission of the platform/device maker. I also can't create my own platform within another platform, without permission of that platform. I can't open an Amazon store and ask Amazon to list or fulfill my goods but not charge me a fee.

Monopoly argument? with like 20-30% global user share? C'mon now