The Apple Ecosystem

[Bob Sneidar]

I’m on the side of having a mobile device that is out of the box safe to use. But I think that Apple should stop resisting attempts to jailbreak it if a user wants to. It should not just be a “switch” as the article states, but rather a process that the end user has to engage in to open up the OS, with the disclaimer that the Apple warranty is null and void if you do.

As far as payment issues go, I think we have all seen in the last decade how many people are okay with breaking a thing or tearing down a thing in the name of making that thing “better". Such an insidious word. How many nations have been destroyed because some group of people decided to actively make it “better”? If getting the engine running again on a ship that is adrift carries the destiny possibility that it will sink the ship, I vigorously recommend against it.

Whatever is decided, and for whatever well intentioned reasons, please, LET’S NOT SINK THE SHIP!

Bob S


On Aug 19, 2020, at 5:42 PM, Dev via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/8/18/app-stores

I DON’T want to restart the flame war, but this post (long, but very informative & thoughtful) seems to me to shed light on all sides of the arguments around the App Store issues. He cuts through some of the rhetoric and a lot of the wishful thinking and supplies some real numbers on market share. He also touches on the EU rulings that seem destined to change some practices on either a voluntary or involuntary basis for major players.

I recommend a read, and if further discussion comes with a little more light and a lot less heat, then I would be very interested to hear that.

Kelly