Saturday, 23 February 2019

Developers are our best bet to stop Apple’s App Store monopoly


Any day now, the US Supreme Court will issue a decision in a case called Apple Inc. v. Pepper, where a group of iPhone users have said that the Apple App Store, the only place they can get software (or apps) on their phones, is an unlawful monopoly. They’re right.  It’s no secret that Apple forces users of its mobile devices (iPhones and iPads) to download apps through its app store. Apple does this so it gets a cut of every software purchase on a mobile device running on iOS. In the Pepper case, someone has finally stood up to…

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https://ift.tt/2EsgrRk Harrison McAvoy February 23, 2019 at 09:00AM

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