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Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

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432 points nobody9999 | 2 comments | 12 Dec 25 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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Bad_Initialism ◴[12 Dec 25 16:25 UTC] No.46245650[source]▶
Tim Cook has been absolutely fantastic for Apple shareholders and absolutely awful for anyone else, particularly the customers.

The walled garden has to end. There is no excuse for making people pay a premium price for an iPad Pro that can't run a third party web browser or do software development in any meaningful way.

Outside of a very narrow use case, the iPad product range is useless, despite the endless rantings of the brainwashed fanboys. Source: used to be one. Left the ecosystem when they started treating the RFCs like toilet paper.

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1. eddieroger ◴[12 Dec 25 16:58 UTC] No.46245996[source]▶
Tim Cook, or any CEO, is accountable to the shareholders, so job well done it seems. It's still the user's choice if they want to live in the walled garden or not, and lots of people do, so why would they change it?
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2. maxhille ◴[12 Dec 25 17:56 UTC] No.46246656[source]▶
I heart that at least in the US losing access to Facetime would be a serious loss in social status. So then this would be a real hurdle WRT user choice.