<story><title>Apple Execs on Facebook (2011)</title><url>https://www.techemails.com/p/apple-execs-on-facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shmerl</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; So, for example If Adobe comes in with an app that links to new web apps that they promote we need to allow that &amp;quot;app store&amp;quot; in, even worse Google could come up with an app that runs all their 3rd party Chrome web apps and we would need to allow that in too! I don&amp;#x27;t see why we want to do that. All these apps won&amp;#x27;t be native, they won&amp;#x27;t have a relationship or license with us, we won&amp;#x27;t review them, they won&amp;#x27;t use our APIs or tools, they won&amp;#x27;t use our stores, etc.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What a horror - someone won&amp;#x27;t be using Apple APIs and tools.&lt;p&gt;This perfectly shows how Apple&amp;#x27;s ban on other browser engines and all similar restrictions in general are not about security or any other bogus excuses they like to present, but about being anti-competitive lock-in control freaks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donmcronald</author><text>The thing that surprised me the most is there’s no mention of what makes a better product for the user.  It’s all business strategy and scheming to build a silo.  I hope regulators obliterate the platform owners.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Execs on Facebook (2011)</title><url>https://www.techemails.com/p/apple-execs-on-facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shmerl</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; So, for example If Adobe comes in with an app that links to new web apps that they promote we need to allow that &amp;quot;app store&amp;quot; in, even worse Google could come up with an app that runs all their 3rd party Chrome web apps and we would need to allow that in too! I don&amp;#x27;t see why we want to do that. All these apps won&amp;#x27;t be native, they won&amp;#x27;t have a relationship or license with us, we won&amp;#x27;t review them, they won&amp;#x27;t use our APIs or tools, they won&amp;#x27;t use our stores, etc.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What a horror - someone won&amp;#x27;t be using Apple APIs and tools.&lt;p&gt;This perfectly shows how Apple&amp;#x27;s ban on other browser engines and all similar restrictions in general are not about security or any other bogus excuses they like to present, but about being anti-competitive lock-in control freaks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astrange</author><text>If other browsers were allowed Chrome would become an all-platform monopoly and there would no longer be real web standards.</text></comment>