• bassomitron@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Your argument would be valid if Apple allowed any other app marketplace on iOS. They force all apps to use their app store. That’s the definition of anticompetitive behavior. Apple wants to force everyone to use their app store and get a cut of all their transactions, that’s some corporate mafia extortion shit.

    Epic sucks, but Apple is/was completely in the wrong there. Google is at least less guilty, as you can still install apps from outside the Google app store on android.

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      11 hours ago

      You completely missed the point of the previous comment.

      No one exonerated Apple; they just pointed out that there are “no good guys here”

      Then you missed the fact that Google is locking down other app stores, but you’re still yelling at Apple for being Apple? Get it together man

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        6 hours ago

        I didn’t say they were exonerating Apple. I was specifically pointing to their argument regarding Apple bearing the server costs. For macOS, sure, that’s valid. But for iOS, Apple is forcing those costs on themselves by keeping a closed system.

        I think I just poorly framed and articulated my response. No need to be so hostile and telling me to, “get it together.” This is supposed to be a casual discussion, not some heated argument.