But yes, I understand your point. But at the same time, I’m not a big fan of these regulations. Feel free to say that I’m an iOvečka, but the principle “you’re too successful, we have to regulate you” just doesn’t suit me. Imagine that you make your own cars that become really popular. You have everything perfectly coordinated, every 2 parts in the car are functionally linked and together provide an excellent user experience, you have an excellent distribution and service network and your cars have a great reputation. Over time, you will allow parts from other manufacturers to be installed in your cars, but with the condition that they are parts that you have approved and that someone in your service department will install them. For creating a market for these manufacturers, testing and approving their parts, supplying them with tooling, doing technical support for them, and even handling customer payments, you charge a portion of their profits. The advantage of this is that it doesn’t happen , that some Franta stuffs parts from AliExpress into his engine and then in the evening, over a beer, swears that the car is a terrible piece of shit, because it doesn’t drive anymore, or slows down over time. Or that since the installation of the radio, which he got very cheaply at the market, he feels that all he has to do is mention something in the car and he already has a mailbox full of advertisements for the products in question. and you must enable users to put parts from anywhere in their car from you, not only those approved by you and assembled in your service stations. For you, this means that you will have to significantly redesign the structure of your cars to make them much more variable and, above all, robust, because you want your car to be reliable at all times, not only with parts that you have carefully designed and tested. In addition, you also need to make sure that the car’s systems are not too interconnected, so that the addition of one bad part does not cancel out everything else. Plus, they want you to be able to repair your cars and add parts not only by you intensively trained mechanics, but so that everyone can do it. The result is that your cars will start to approach all other brands in their construction and the regulation will take away what made you unique . In addition, some parts that were previously sold by you have already been distributed by their suppliers exclusively in their service stations, so your customers who do not want to change their habits now have to go around 4 service stations for their favorite set of parts. This is not quite the “user experience” you would like. I bought the iPhone because it is a closed system where all applications are controlled (although it is not a 100% solution) and its security is at some level. In addition, Apple guarantees that all payments through applications will be safe, guarantees that if I want to complain about the app, I will get my money back, allows me to manage all subscriptions from one place. I’m fine with all of this and I don’t want to break it.
I’m actually glad that Apple aims to keep the top 1% of apps in the AppStore, and I can count on the above to continue to apply. On the other hand, I agree that Apple’s rules are sometimes very profit-motivated – e.g. .(now revoked) ban on game streaming apps – allegedly due to inability to control content, realistically more due to inability to control profit. Ditto emulators of old consoles etc. It’s not the angelic Apple and the evil EU, Spotify and Epic. Everyone has their own interests and wants to make the most of it. Only I bought Apple not in spite of it, but because of its approach, and the EU now wants to protect me from that same approach. And I don’t need that and I don’t like it at all.
2024-02-10 14:17:00
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