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0 pointsnerdjon2y ago0 comments

I am listing off those stores because I am making a point that as a gamer, I do not have a choice in using certain stores and launchers if I want to play the games I want to play.

That is the exact situation I want to avoid on my phone.

What is so hard about that to understand. This is removing a choice from a user.

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post_break2y ago

You have a choice. Don't use the other store. If there was only one AppStore for games on PC you'd have no choice. That's the point. If it was only Steam, and Steam said they won't allow any games that depict war, what choice would you have?

But that's the magic of having multiple App Stores, they have to compete. They can't be the world police of software.

What's so hard to understand that having a choice means you can choose to do something, or not.

If you want to use your phone with only Apple's Appstore, continue to do so, if an app you really want is not on the app store, then DONT BUY IT, except now, someone besides you has the CHOICE to download it.

nerdjonOP2y ago

You are advocating for an indirect choice, I have no benefit to installing Epic Game store, rockstar, or any other launcher. None, it just isn't there.

Where as my direct choice is, I want to play this game. If I want to play a specific game, the choice of launcher is being made for me.

That is not competition.

I should not have to make that choice, and until this roles out I have not had to make this choice with my phone. I have been able to confidently install anything I want from a single source and it's great.

That choice will be removed from me, that DIRECT choice. Not indirect which is what the App Store change will be.

smoldesu2y ago

> That choice will be removed from me, that DIRECT choice. Not indirect which is what the App Store change will be.

That direct choice is an obvious illusion, though. Apps get depreciated, delisted, or plain removed by their developer all the time, your lack of control is corollary to that process. The incentive to leave the App Store has always existed, it's just viable now with alternative storefronts. As a user embedded in Apple's ecosystem, politely put, you're not owed any special treatment.

The experience may well degrade from here. I'd expect Apple to do the smart thing, and implement Android-style process isolation and additional security considerations.

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