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This is exactly what I’m talking about what I say I fucking hate capitalism.
Apple already make more money than just about anyone else in the world, but because shareholders expect infinite unending YoY growth they’re not allowed to just keep making billions of dollars. Every year senior management have to find new ways of bilking more cash than the year before, otherwise they’ll get replaced by someone who will.
yep
I don't have much against small scale capitalism - the kind your neighbour likes because his brother works hard to run a business
but mega corp infinite growth — fuuuuuuck that shit, that's a cancer
what would lenin do?
Wonder why we need 3rd party app stores.
And ffs, would other countries help a little, or should the EU just carry your asses every single time big tech tries some shit.
would other countries help a little
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/apple-opens-up-its-app-store-to-competition-in-japan/
I can assure you, it was not Apple's idea. Not like they just turned good hearted and chose to do it 🤣
Nice.
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The latest tend is retro tech and back to a flip phone. You can't have ads in the app store when there is no store.
Oh, I wish. I will be focusing my year-end donation round on efforts to make that happen.
So Jolla phone?
I would like to use my current phone (Fairphone 4), so I will donate to postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, and some of the DE (ME?) like KDE Plasma Mobile and Phosh.
Fair. Those do deserve donations. I'm very interested in hardware that's able to compete with the likes of Apple and Pixels, but am reluctant to throw my money at dreams for now. I'm really rooting for more linux phones and would just ship in a heartbeat if they become viable.
Will be interesting to see how the Jolla phone turns out :)
Isnt that proprietary
Why are we paying a premium price for an ad ridden product ?
Because you did in the past and taught them you will do that again.
There's a rule - don't deal with assholes. No matter how big and visible their shop is.
Why would they not do it when time and time and time again customers and lawmakers make explicit that they're absolutely fine with this behaviour?
GraphemeOS + Fairphone anytime would be awesome. Fuck these walled monopolistic ecosystems.
Run GrapheneOS and Linux right now. They're a PITA but work well enough. No way would I go back to an iPhone or a Mac.
The apple app store is one of the worst distro package managers ever. Yes, "distro"; if I am not mistaken macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Apple's other operating systems are all distributions of Apple's Darwin BSD kernel.
You are mistaken. "Distro" is a word for Linux distributions because they have kernels with the same one upstream, and userspace programs assembled of many different projects into different versions of the same dish.
BSDs are different operating systems, they don't share one upstream, they do share one ancestor (like 30 years ago, so - not very relevant now). Including userspace, except for common software, of course.
And Darwin is another operating system, including its own userspace tools, which are partially derived from BSD code, but its kernel is different, it's Mach plus some BSD-derived code. It's not a BSD.
And while mostly Apple's OSes are Darwin, I think I've read some of them are NetBSD. Not sure which.
And it's a store, not a package manager. It's in the name.
Someday they will make it so the first result isn't always an ad and then we'll have to start looking at it again.
So is this what the tech bros wanted when they said locked in walled gardens where more secure?
how do you think this problem can be solved from a socialist/communist perspective?
oh and this is my 500th comment here on this lemmy instance - that's a bit more than how many comments i've posted on hexbear. seriously!
Jesus, just bought an apple tv as a pass through for my living room tv precisely to stop those f*** ads...
