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Yup pretty much. Everything is a laundry list of tracking and “live ops” that’s meant to basically consume your entire life. Games are all gated by time barriers unless you pay.
Everything is a subscription and most are ridiculously priced that if you subbed to 8 of them, you’d be out near $100 a month! For a handful of apps!
Apple never cared about the long game. I guess just like every other company. All Cook cared about was dollars. And since they took 30% of everything, insanely priced subscriptions were like gold to them. They also span off browser extensions into pseudo-apps to further widen their reach.
Integrity and quality is absolute shit. Even in iOS. Every version feels like a beta with either graphical glitches or serious bugs. It’s like we’re regressing.
I haven’t been interested in app for almost a decade because there’s just nothing worth my time.
It’s honestly nice to know that there are others that feel the same. As that’s the only way we can hope to shift away from this shitshow of basic thievery.