The iPhone platform has competition against other platforms. The platform as a whole is competing with android for instance.

Within the android platform, google play competes with fdroid, Samsung galaxy store, etc.

Within the iPhone platform, the app store has no competition.

I’m in the US. When did I say I was European?

Glad to see you respond to the argument with logic instead of making assumptions about my identity and deciding that’s an attack.

Expecting platforms to try and get chosen by consumers for being a good option rather than being the only option is unreasonable?

If Apple’s offering is better or as good as the competition, consumers won’t try to rip it out and swap it for the competitor’s product.

RCS support

Why is the fact that there are no ads in Apple apps relevant to this post? None of this will stop you from using Apple apps.

Allowing people to use non-Apple apps won’t force people to not use Apple apps. People will only use non-Apple apps if they think it’s doing something better than Apple apps. If, as you say, Apple apps are the best, then people will use them even if Apple allows competitors into the iOS market. I do not see a single way this decision hurts any consumers.

Yeah, if tiny smart watch startups can make it, Apple can.

That’s still the easiest way. Email them, don’t tweet them.

They forked Judaism

I know they probably actually meant the States of the US, but…

They did say states with a lowercase s. ‘States’ = regions within a country, ‘states’ = can mean countries. Technically they aren’t defaulting to the US.

Right now there’s a section in prime video that’s titled free with ads(only if you have prime). After the change, all prime videos will be in that section.

Have you heard of our savior Firefox/LibreWolf?

That might be the longest run on sentence I’ve ever read

If you stay within the reddit api limits of pay for it, yes.

Quick question, what the fuck?