<story><title>Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/apple-ban-google-data-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coder543</author><text>I hope all of the publicity this gets will somehow bring more attention to how much control Apple exerts over the iOS app ecosystem, and maybe bring change there.&lt;p&gt;I think developers should be able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store if they want, just like on macOS and Android, but Apple is allowed to have this much control because the iPhone doesn&amp;#x27;t represent the majority of the market, so they aren&amp;#x27;t as subject to monopoly&amp;#x2F;antitrust stuff.&lt;p&gt;I can still hope that Apple will open up their mobile platform further, one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marricks</author><text>They seem to be the only body capable (and willing) to enforce privacy measures, so god I hope your wrong.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/apple-ban-google-data-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coder543</author><text>I hope all of the publicity this gets will somehow bring more attention to how much control Apple exerts over the iOS app ecosystem, and maybe bring change there.&lt;p&gt;I think developers should be able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store if they want, just like on macOS and Android, but Apple is allowed to have this much control because the iPhone doesn&amp;#x27;t represent the majority of the market, so they aren&amp;#x27;t as subject to monopoly&amp;#x2F;antitrust stuff.&lt;p&gt;I can still hope that Apple will open up their mobile platform further, one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stuart78</author><text>Developers are able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store, on Android.&lt;p&gt;There is a lot about Apple&amp;#x27;s restrictive approach I don&amp;#x27;t care for, most notably forcing digital subscriptions to run through App Store billing, but being the single point of entry for apps onto the phone is a feature, not a bug. I trust the content on Apple devices far more than I would those on an Android device.</text></comment>