rainer_d@alien.topBtoApple•Australian regulator calls for new competition laws for digital platformsEnglish
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1 year agoThe vast majority of users clearly are not able to act responsible all the time in all life-situations.
People are flawed.
The vast majority of users clearly are not able to act responsible all the time in all life-situations.
People are flawed.
I’m genuinely excited to see all the interesting new apps and the creativity which will be allowed to flourish again on the platform.
Likely, we’ll just see decreased quality, new threats and exploit-vectors, scams.
And a few more adult-entertainment-focused apps (that currently Apple doesn’t want).
Just like in Android-land. Or when TV got “liberalized”.
All the use-cases people usually cite (emulators, shells) are really irrelevant to anybody but the absolute tiniest fraction of the user base and IMHO not worth sacrificing the obvious security and stability advantages the current status-quo offers to 100% of the user base.
Back when there were only three TV channels…
In reality, all this drama about “choice” is just governments looking to be able to more conveniently install their man-in-the-middle stack for chat-surveillance.