> Here’s a question: if Facebook is willing to breach this important contract with Apple and think they’d get away with it, how much do you think they respect contracts they make with their customers?
Not at all? I don't trust any government or company pretty much these days. It's all a game of "who is most likely to screw you up in the least bad way", (corporate) ethics have gone totally downhill.
Basically, Apple wants to extract the maximum profit - and thus bans competing app stores, forcing their cut on every transaction, and banning everything which may be legal but not in their "ethical desires" (like porn) and thus hindering the informed choice of their customers.
That being sad, what Facebook is trying to do here is deeply disgusting, but if it helps break Apple's walled garden, I'm willing to cut them some slack.
Ok - at least we know where you stand - you are willing to forgive Facebook for breach of contract, deception and spying on kids, because you want to damage Apple.
Worth noting that Apple has massive and vigorous completion in the phone market in the form of the many Android variants which have exactly the open market you want, and only a minority of customers choose Apple, and they do so in the knowledge that Apple controls the App Store.
On the other hand Facebook actually does have a near monopoly on social networking with no viable competitor at all.
It makes no sense why you’d want to excuse clearly dishonest behavior by an actual monopolist, in order to harm the business of company who has clear and viable market competitors keeping it in check.
Why do you care about Apple at all, when you can just buy an Android phone?
> On the other hand Facebook actually does have a near monopoly on social networking with no viable competitor at all.
Which should be broken up and Facebook forced to re-introduce federation (their Messenger long ago offered XMPP), but that is a different question.
> Why do you care about Apple at all, when you can just buy an Android phone?
Actually I am an Android owner, who is a bit unhappy with Apple locking down their ecosystem so hard that a migration (in both directions) is next to impossible.
Not at all? I don't trust any government or company pretty much these days. It's all a game of "who is most likely to screw you up in the least bad way", (corporate) ethics have gone totally downhill.
Basically, Apple wants to extract the maximum profit - and thus bans competing app stores, forcing their cut on every transaction, and banning everything which may be legal but not in their "ethical desires" (like porn) and thus hindering the informed choice of their customers.
That being sad, what Facebook is trying to do here is deeply disgusting, but if it helps break Apple's walled garden, I'm willing to cut them some slack.