Now add the money incentive and you get apps that track and trick you in every turn because the competition is so heavy and marketing costly. Let’s say Netflix makes their own app store for Netflix and their games. If they loose around a third of their customers it’s still ok. Now Netflix plays fast and loose with the sandboxing because they really want feature x, like lock the screen to the Netflix app only unlockable with their PIN, so they allow this, suddenly another app with malicious intent uses the feature.
We have seen similar things happen on early versions of Windows mobile and Palm Pilot.
If Netflix were to treat their customers like that, why would anyone continue to subscribe?
I get the argument that Apple fighting on behalf of users can be good. Unfortunately they went well beyond that remit, and have blocked all kinds of useful applications on specious and moral grounds. What right should Apple have to block xCloud? Or Fortnite? Or emulators? Or torrent applications? Or crypto wallets? Or adult themed apps? Or Parler? And this says nothing of their predatory revenue model. They had their chance to be good citizens of a dominant platform. They totally blew it. They chose to tell users and legislators to go fuck themselves. This is 100% Apple’s fault.
