When you look it narrow, you will mot see it. But as you start to see the big picture, you start to see the similarities with our past mistakes.
Companies that are so afraid of loosing their power over their consumers, will do anything and everything to keep it.
If android and apple had an Open Store API, and their respective stores had the power, no problem.
But closing their store apis for themself, payments to themself is bad.
Do you think we would’ve had chrome and firefox, if IE used obscure APIs?
Imagine Internet standards as controlled by Microsoft.
They reject legit apps on daily basis without recourse.
To keep it more simple, think of how US let its telecom companies have so much power over its communication needs. How it’s affecting people.
I dispute your claim that I don't see the big picture and even if I accepted it you have provided absolutely no justification why the specific action is an issue in the big picture, It is just a bunch of non-specific anti-Google rambling. I give it as much credit as I do anti-vax and anti-mask ranting I see here.
Okay lets talk big picture the way I see it.
Two companies that run Majority of the phones worldwide, wants to stiffle competition. There is an App which I want to use on iOS but since it doesn’t follow iOS design guidelines its not allowed on appstore, the dev submitted and appealed several times.
To be fair he cannot adhere to design guidelin because its a garmin glass cockilpit addon for flight simulator which is not an IOS design. Despite several appeals, he cant get thru the support. Sure big names get credit for supporting the BIG2, but what about the developers like this case?
I generally agree, but this is a very weird phrase considering history:
> Do you think we would’ve had chrome and firefox, if IE used obscure APIs
IE did use obscure, non standard APIs. It took web developers to get tired of MS' shit and starting to code to the standards to dethrone IE from its monopoly. This also kind of implies that IE was there before Netscape which is not true.
