@viticci Heck, they could have avoided 90% of this if they'd stuck to their policy of only allowing IAPs in paid apps.

@viticci meanwhile Apple think of all the money they wouldn’t have made :D

@viticci The stink of money is just unresistable. And instead of just making it easy and safe to install apps from anywhere they will shit around and make things worse and stomp like and angry three year old

@viticci greed is a hell of a drug.

@viticci this imo is all down to Schiller and the mentality he has embedded into Apple from literally day 0 into all the people who work within the AppStore. He himself mentioned about how they’d inevitably would need to make changes and open things up however he also critically mentioned in emails about doing so in position of “power” rather than being forced. The irony. Its shame not many podcasts has picked on this and instead focus on the “Tim Cook doctrine” instead.

@viticci I prefer the security of the iOS install process.

@viticci @tclementdev I think about all the drama that could have been avoided if they just unbundled the 30% commission and allowed ppl to pay-for-play each component of it.

@viticci Except that unlike the Mac, iPhones would then become the top target for malware on the planet.

@viticci I also keep thinking about this.

@viticci The iPhone may never have become as popular as it is today if it were just another android clone. How many people chose iOS precisely because of its closed nature?

@viticci @Gargron It’s interesting to me the “security” minded ignore or forget the years of jailbreaking that took place and the distinct lack of botnet phones, stolen millions from banking apps, etc.

Secure and open is possible. If anyone could it’s Apple and I’m bummed they’re fighting this so hard.

@viticci Except that not making iPhones work like Macs for installing apps was what made the experience so pleasant. Not looking forward to my phone turning into the mess that PCs became that requires tons of decision making and regulated by idiotic governments around the world.

@viticci It astounds me that Apple has been able to hold on to veto power over developers for so long. And that it translates into veto power over the capabilities of end users. I remember having antitrust discussions all the way back when the AppStore launched. We knew this would happen.

@viticci agreed. The blocker to this would be a small group of AppStore executives who care about their million dollar bonuses more than apps or customers. Incentives are greed based 😤