It’s not, iOS has something like almost 70% of the mobile apps income despite having 1/3 or users compared to Android.

Also Android has this annoying problem where there pirate versions of an app will show up when it has in-app purchases or scammers will rip-off your app, rebrand it and place an overwhelming amount of ads to make a quick buck before the app is flagged and taken down. That’s not accounting for the stories of accounts simply being taken down without warning.

But we already have quantum proof passwords nowadays.

It highly depends on country, region, socioeconomic factors etc.

I think the issue now is that the market got fragmented and now you can’t find as much content as before without using multiple services, which is an annoyance.

They’ve done with with platforms that were already created like that: which is iOS. They never closed macOS completely because the outcry would be huge and it would disrupt all the existing stakeholders of it and ultimately lose a significant market share.

It’s actually one reason they won’t allow macOS to run in an iPad: the iPad apps ecosystem is completely controlled by them, while macaOS’s isn’t.

I’ll still say that when it comes to developers, Apple is a much better experience than Google.

On the App Store you can appeal if your app is rejected and you have an actual human on the other side to explain you what are the issues.

On the Google Play, anything goes usually, but later if your account gets flagged by their automated system, you might 1) get a generic email with no explanation and a threat that you should fix it or the app will be taken down and your account get 1 out of 3 warnings; 2) get your account simply banned without explanation, losing all your services associated with Google forever with no appeal or anything you can do; 3) have your Google account simply disabled for supposedly being “associated” with some other account that was banned.

Many of these horror stories can be found on the Android development subreddits and I suspect this is the result of the Play Store being a big target of malicious or scam apps constantly.

It’s all about trust. The problem is that people trust Apple not to steal your credit card information and to honor subscription rules etc. You probably trust the independent platform a bit less, such as many of those scammer platforms who might even charge people more than they should by “mistake”, then have an awful process to get reimbursed etc.

In that sense, most people will always prefer Apple to manage these things. Everything’s then in one place, and you trust that once you cancel it you won’t be charged again.

As an example, I had a Netflix subscription and after I cancelled it, I’ve got 2 or three emails saying “Thank you for reactivating your subscription” which I didn’t do. I suspect they make some pop up that my mom tapped without noticing, but that definitely shouldn’t happen without my password. I could only solve the problem by adding a second payment method (which doesn’t work) and only then it allowed me to delete my previous credit card data.

It’s probably just like shopping malls. Big brands pay less rent because they drive more people to the mall and thus have more leverage.

They’re not that stupid yet.

Because there’s no solution that we know of.

Unfortunately, unless it is a moderators’ rule, this just won’t happen.

Probably parses old.reddit.com

Cancel or allow??

Lemmy is naturally more focused on technology, so sports communities will probably continue to be mostly on Reddit.

It seems so, some people in the thread complained their parents don’t use ChromeCast because it needed the phone to use. Apparently seniors are also better if you want to sell an expensive subscription when the opportunity arises.

They won’t lose money if they lower prices of key products in one single store and just a bit lower than their competitor the moment it becomes a threat. And even if they did, they would make it up later by having the whole market share. It’s no different than, let’s say, Uber burning money initially to win against all competitors then raising prices when they become the default platform people trust.

They know that after they have the market, it takes a significant upfront investment to bootstrap a competitor, which can only be done with investors money, which at that point won't bet on the smaller company with a boring business model.

Google wants to force Gemini on my Pixel. So I nuked Android.

And what do you use now?

We are fine. The next generations are doomed with the tech we created.

I think the actual problem here is that if the product people can’t learn such a simple thing by themselves, they also won’t be able to correctly prompt the LLM to their use case.

They said, I do think LLMs can boost productivity a lot. I’m learning a new framework and since there’s so much details to learn about it, it’s fast to ask ChatGPT what’s the proper way to do X on this framework etc. Although that only works because I already studied the foundation concepts of that framework first.