2021-06-09 10:32:47
> Craig Federighi spent 49 seconds previewing iOS 15’s new weather app. (...) They came at a developer conference, [yet this move is] quite clearly focused on obviating 3rd-party weather apps. (...) FaceTime now has system-level advantages over Zoom. (...) Apple limits access to both NFC and the secure element. (...) 3rd-party note-taking apps (…) can only operate in their sandbox.
> John Gruber analogized iOS [to a theme park]: '[Theme parks] are fun, safe, and deliver a designed experience. They’re also expensive, and the food [sucks]. (...) But not every park should necessarily be public'. (...) If you were to boil Apple’s philosophy (...) to one word, that word would be “integration.” And guess what? First party integration is bad for third-party developers.
> Antitrust law (...) can be changed by new laws passed by Congress. (...) In this potential world it’s not simply problematic that Apple charges Spotify 30%; (...) it is also illegal to incorporate Apple Music into SharePlay or Shared-with-you or Photos, or in the most extreme versions of these proposed laws, even have Apple Music at all.
> This, more than anything, is why Apple should rethink its approach to the App Store. (...) Apple, by virtue of building the underlying platform, has every advantage in the world. (...) Demanding 30% and total control of the users of its already diminished competition isn’t simply anticompetitive, it is risking what makes the company unique.
https://stratechery.com/2021/integrated-apple-and-app-store-risk/
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