<story><title>Apple Threatens to Remove App &apos;Hey&apos; from App Store over No In-App Subscriptions</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/16/apple-threatens-to-remove-hey-from-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Your outrage would&amp;#x27;ve made a bit more sense a decade ago when the App Store first came out. But since then it&amp;#x27;s now the standard for platforms to restrict what apps can be installed.&lt;p&gt;For example you can&amp;#x27;t install any apps you want on a Tesla, Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, Samsung TV, Sony Camera.</text></item><item><author>notRobot</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s baffling to me. I can buy a USD1k+ device and still not be able to install on it the apps I want because the manufacturer doesn&amp;#x27;t want me to, and this is legal? Such horsecrap.&lt;p&gt;People get annoyed when folks on the internet repeatedly bring up Libre&amp;#x2F;Free software and software freedoms, but just look at this shit.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s essentially &lt;i&gt;no&lt;/i&gt; way for me to install an app on my iPhone if Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t want me to, even though I paid over $1000 for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orangecat</author><text>Many of us were outraged a decade ago. And we were told &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;re being paranoid, this is only for phones&amp;quot;, when it was obvious that mobile computing was going to take over almost everything.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Threatens to Remove App &apos;Hey&apos; from App Store over No In-App Subscriptions</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/16/apple-threatens-to-remove-hey-from-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Your outrage would&amp;#x27;ve made a bit more sense a decade ago when the App Store first came out. But since then it&amp;#x27;s now the standard for platforms to restrict what apps can be installed.&lt;p&gt;For example you can&amp;#x27;t install any apps you want on a Tesla, Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, Samsung TV, Sony Camera.</text></item><item><author>notRobot</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s baffling to me. I can buy a USD1k+ device and still not be able to install on it the apps I want because the manufacturer doesn&amp;#x27;t want me to, and this is legal? Such horsecrap.&lt;p&gt;People get annoyed when folks on the internet repeatedly bring up Libre&amp;#x2F;Free software and software freedoms, but just look at this shit.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s essentially &lt;i&gt;no&lt;/i&gt; way for me to install an app on my iPhone if Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t want me to, even though I paid over $1000 for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ASalazarMX</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a very good thing that they sanitize their App Store for the 95% of users that just want convenience. It&amp;#x27;s a very bad thing that Apple puts blocks every step of the way when you want to sideload an app, even if you made it yourself for your own private use.</text></comment>