This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Apple is the same company that “complied” with the alternative app stores by “allowing” altstore to exist, fully controlled by something called “notarized” apps.
They are are a POS anti-consumer company which deserves the worst. Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the quality of their own os and apps. Pure trash.
There is no company a tenth of their size that is not anti competitive.
I hate to shill for Google given their recent stanceand steps against AOSP, but early Android was truely open source, and it was amazing. Then the started kneecapping it by making it heavily reliant on google services and being antagonistic against the community. Part of it because China is becoming a gigantic threat, both hardware and software (Huwaei's latest OS). Still, AOSP has been caught in the crossfire.
Google is hugely anti competitive. Why cant I use a different voice assistant on android? If I disable the google app Inlose voice control of my car.
I get in your example they took their time but they were in the embrace phase.
I was intrigued by this point:
We replied saying that there's a lot of scam apps on the App Store, and that there isn't an easy report scam button. We should have clarified that the relevant button only shows after installing an app, as well as being located at the bottom of the page - a text link saying "report a problem".
And Apples reply?
Gary … replied with what sounded like, and hallucinated like, a Gen AI answer: "it's on every single product page for every single app that's available on the App Store, very prominently".
No it’s not. The button does indeed only appear on installed apps, which is a problem if you’re already aware of issues with the app.
And it’s not prominent - it’s placed right at the bottom and in the small text like the privacy of policy link above it. You could easily miss it as you could just perceive it be part of the privacy/terms links - and who has time to read those??
The whole post in general is a good non-polemic piece on why we should not be using ICT services from commercial American organizations (the we includes sane Americans).
We are dealing with people who are not capable of honesty.
Real power is not capable of honesty, it just takes and does whatever it wants.
Laws exist only for ordinary people, they are not written for the chosen ones.
