Comment by data-ottawa
2 years ago
My one fear for this is the leverage it gives large tech companies.
What's to stop Microsoft, Meta, or Amazon from forcing you to download their own app store to use their apps? We kind of see this on PC already with every company having their own game or app store.
When Chrome is on iOS and is pushed on every Google search, what happens to health of the web? Does that create a new web monopoly?
It's not totally fair that Apple gives themselves special permissions and blocks competitors, or forces the prices they do from devs who would otherwise sell their apps through their website, but is that the lesser of two evils?
> What's to stop Microsoft, Meta, or Amazon from forcing you to download their own app store to use their apps?
Like Apple does now, except for every app.
> We kind of see this on PC already with every company having their own game or app store.
No we don't. Those are fringe and mostly unsuccessful. And even then, those companies should not have to pay 30% of their revenue to steam, so fuck that.
> When Chrome is on iOS and is pushed on every Google search, what happens to health of the web? Does that create a new web monopoly?
Forcing everyone to use Safari is a web monopoly.
Yeah, Amazon make their own App Store for Android that I assume nobody uses outside of Fire devices because it’s terrible. They still make their apps available on the Google Play store, so this theoretical concern seems like it will remain theoretical.
MobileSafari is currently the only thing preventing a Chromium web monopoly.
By forcing a monopoly.
I don't see how any of the things you describe is necessarily a bad thing for users.
And if other large tech companies (as if Apple wasn't one of the biggest monopolies itself) have to be broken down, so be it. I too consider companies like Google way too big.
But as a user, and a small developer, I have more pressing issues with the iOS ecosystem than "what ifs" about Google.