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EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores (appleinsider.com)

submitted 7 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores::The European Union's Margrethe Vestager has met with leaders of US Big Tech firms to discuss their operations in the EU, and with Apple's Tim Cook concentrated on the App Store and Apple Music.

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (10 children)

The option is there. Windows has an open platform, do you buy all your software and games through Microsoft or do you use the developer's website and third party launchers that have to compete on experience pricing?

Whether they are used or not doesn't matter, the first step is opening it up. And there are multiple apps that I get through alternative stores than the play store and it benefits the developer more so I don't really care what the other 99% are up to.

[–] seedd@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Thats because windows didn't have a store before 8, so everybody is used to downloading exe. And even today there isn't much on windows store. And i am not agaisnt sideloading, but there should be some safety measures too (maybe thats why windows needs antivirus?) to idiot proof sideloading. F droid is a great example of what sideloading should be.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

If you look at macOS, you see that even apps not installed through the app store need to be signed from apple in order to not trigger a big ass warning. Apple on it’s own proofs that the security aspect is not an argument. Edit: I think windows does this as well to some degree

[–] seedd@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Windoss doesn't do jack shit, that defender crap will block good cracked apps but won't block actual malware. No wonder windows has bad rep about about virus, security etc

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

This just isn’t true. Defender is pretty much all you need to prevent malware these days.

Yes, cracks and such are also caught up in them, but that’s true of virtually every antivirus.

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