It might get more expensive to subscribe to creators on iOS.
  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
    29·
    3 months ago

    they’ve done everything in their power since then to close it up.

    If they wanted to close it up, they’d just do it…

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        What’s stupid about that? Apple’s been doing it for decades and no one cares enough to actually do anything about it.

        • Balder@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          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.