AppStore controls are one of the biggest restrictions on free speech on the internet and somehow we don’t acknowledge it. The reason it’s such a big point of control is that competing with the duopoly is nearly impossible. It’s market capture.

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we all know, cant get any VC in the valley if you got that green bubble tho. thats why jack and friends, theyre only on iphone while tryina tell us to work on opensource and not even start companies. the dissonance is disturbing.
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AppStore controls are one of the biggest restrictions on free speech on the internet and somehow we don’t acknowledge it. The reason it’s such a big point of control is that competing with the duopoly is nearly impossible. It’s market capture.
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. 1 year ago
Well when people mention that using Android is better everyone loses their minds and makes it into some weird thing
Is the rejection due to some perceived free speech issue? More often with apps that include things like zaps, it’s confusion around payment rules on one side or the other.
More recently, the only thing I'm hearing iPhone users say they don't like about android is that it doesn't have imessage or whatever it is called. I think Apple makes raw SMS/android messages a different color that users don't like. Marketing genius. They make the user feel like an inside crowd.
How is it restricting? I haven't used one of the two mentioned app stores in 10 years. It's the public that is kept dumb and lazy that is the problem.
The power of the web and PWA in there to save us all, always have web clients