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o Re: Apple says App Store developers have earned $60 billion in 2021Andy Burnelli

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 by: Andy Burnelli - Thu, 13 Jan 2022 04:10 UTC

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:45:57 -0800, sms wrote:

> I suppose that if a development platform is able to generate dual
> platform apps, that use functionality not available in iOS, that there
> would be some indication to the developer that some of the functionality
> would not be present on the iOS version.
>
> Hopefully the app developer would be aware of the differences in
> capabilities.

The problem is that Apple prevents the market from accessing operating
system functionality that Google can't prevent the developers from using.

Take the words right out of the mouth of the Tor Project, for example.
<https://support.torproject.org/tormobile/tormobile-3/>
"Can I run Tor Browser on an iOS device?
We recommend an iOS app called Onion Browser, which is open source,
uses Tor routing, and is developed by someone who works closely with
the Tor Project. However, Apple requires browsers on iOS to use
something called Webkit, which prevents Onion Browser from having
the same privacy protections as Tor Browser."

This instance is just one of so many that anyone who doesn't realize how
crippled iOS is, is simply ignorant of the basic facts about why iOS can't
do what _every_ other common consumer operating system already does
(including the Mac).

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