Being banned from the iOS App Store also doesn't make your software unusable on Windows, or Mac, or any other non-iOS platform. The App Store's exclusivity is precisely the same as that of nearly every video game console.
We actually have Nintendo to blame for this whole thing. They started the walled garden situation, and people seem oblivious to it and love them as a company.
> In a landmark ruling against Tengen in March of 1991, Judge Fern Smith stated that Nintendo had the right to “exclude others” from the NES if they so chose, thus providing the legal soil on which many more walled gardens would be tilled in the years to come.
baddox|5 years ago
brmgb|5 years ago
I don't understand why you keep bringing up video game consoles in this discussion.
1. You seem to believe people actually agree with the way console stores work. This is not the case.
2. The fact that the situation is also terrible somewhere else doesn't absolve Apple of anything. That's not how justice works.
Hamuko|5 years ago
oblio|5 years ago
https://www.filfre.net/2016/04/generation-nintendo/ ->
> In a landmark ruling against Tengen in March of 1991, Judge Fern Smith stated that Nintendo had the right to “exclude others” from the NES if they so chose, thus providing the legal soil on which many more walled gardens would be tilled in the years to come.
All walled gardens suck.
mantap|5 years ago