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Our priorities just aren't aligned, I am not being measurably hurt by any of the AppStore rules cyberax laid out.

I don't want to be forced or even prompted to fill out my personal information on every apps website. To me that sounds like an increased burden of my time, and it puts my personal information at higher risk to be gathered and sold or leaked. I prefer the transaction to happen within the app on iOS conforming to the UI/UX standards that Apple has established.

I know exactly what happens when we just let the free market "manage" anything. Utter chaos. We get an internet that is completely and utterly infected with ads, spam, and scams.

No thanks.



Why did you choose to write your first post in bad faith?


Not bad faith. In 2006, the AppStore didn’t exist. In 2008, it did. Many people decided that they could sell an app and make a profit.

A decade and a half later, the overhead is the same but somehow people think they’re being treated unfairly.

You can make the app, you can charge what you want, you can make the app for any and every platform. Where is the harm? Where is the anti-competitiveness?


> I know exactly what happens when we just let the free market "manage" anything.

This is literally how we got here right now. The "free market" allowed Apple to be anti-competitive. The way you say it makes it sound like we're not in a free market, lol.

Monopolies (or its variants) are literally the end game of free markets. You can't have free markets without eventually reaching this shitty endgame of a few players manipulating the market as they see fit.


Monopoly of what? Manipulating how?

You are free to charge whatever you want, free to release your app on any platform.




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