![]() ![]() This would be like if Microsoft not only forced you to have IE6 installed. Not only are the profiting an obscene amount for services available elsewhere (And arguably better services across the board for stuff like payment options, ad options, browser options, email client options, etc) but they are doing so BECAUSE the better options are restricted or limited on their platform. but because of the restrictions, you are limited to a second-rate Webkit base web browser with limitations on bluetooth, game controller support, etc. I have issue with both the restrictions AND the cut.Īrguments are made along the lines of "don't like the app store? make a web app". You would also be trusting Epic to curate content to the extent that Apple does when they have no financial incentive to do so, which is IMHO why the Play Store is so full of garbage. Most users wouldn't understand any of what I've just said and won't take the time to learn so they are a danger to themselves. Part of me hopes that Epic wins both cases if only to force Google and Apple to separate their income streams from the security model, but Apple's not wrong here. ![]() Those services aren't downloading software to the user's device, and much like Netflix, the user is accessing a content catalogue administered and provided elsewhere.Įpic doesn't want democracy on Android and iOS, it wants its own store on both devices so it has a competitive advantage over both companies everywhere (if I can buy an app or a game from Epic rather than Apple, and know I can take that purchase with me to other platforms like Windows/Playstation or even if I switch phone eco-systems, that's what I'm going to do as a consumer).Ī ruling in Epic's favour would almost certainly get the Epic store onto games consoles, too.Įssentially it does boil down to greedy corporation vs. The hardest aspect of this to defend, and it's obviously not a use case that Epic are going to push because it hurts their potential to profit from this, is blocking services like xCloud and Stadia. Is Apple making a fortune by not having a competitive marketplace for software on iOS? Of course they are. I recommend all users of Windows enable controlled folder access on any volumes / folders that old personal data. It wants to run unconstrained and infests the user profile almost irrecoverably save a fresh install. I also enabled Controlled Folder Access on all my personal data directories - o boy, you wouldn't believe where shitty software wants to put its hands.Īs far as I am concerned, most vendored software of Windows is malware by behaviour, to some degree. I tend to not use software requiring elevated privileges to install at all - for example, nearly all "top" vendors of commerical-grade PDF editing software just recently have not gotten my business, simply because their installers - executed in a VM to test the software - all required elevated privileges, were very invasive to boot and didn't uninstall cleanly. Windows ecosystem is much worse, terribly so: a lot of existing and new installers still require running with elevated privileges for no good reason, oftentimes simply because of the installer framework used, despite being signed by whoever or not, and I keep seeing the UAC prompt way more often than I should. I'm attempting to do the same on any and all Linux servers I run, using systemd's + selinux's isolation features to constrain any long-running processes as much as possible. app bundles is user friendly in that regard in that any user can install apps under ~/Library instead of installing them system-wide. In fact installing software for single account use shouldn't ever have to require elevated privileges at all. I am personally a power-user of macOS, compiling a lot of software myself or via macports, and as long as these tools work without requiring root access, narrowing down what any process can do to the bare minimum has my approval. ![]() I personally like where macOS is going: immutable base OS tree, accessing user content folders requiring per-application approval (wish I could also just grant per-application read or write access).
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