<story><title>Apple Music on Android asks user&apos;s card details to avoid Google&apos;s 30% cut</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hb0jl8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>copp</author><text>The usual discussion on this topic goes like this:&lt;p&gt;Apple defenders - It is their right to do it, since Android store allows them.&lt;p&gt;Others - Apple is being a hypocrite. While they maintain that app store must be compensated for all the services they do to developers, When given a chance they do not agree with their above statement.&lt;p&gt;I feel w.r.t app stores, Google is User-centric, but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers. They use users as pawns, to bully the best for Apple, rather than their customers (you and I).&lt;p&gt;edit: To explain &amp;quot;user centric&amp;quot; better&lt;p&gt;Because of Apple&amp;#x27;s rules, you cannot just sign-up from Netflix app in iOS. You have to sign up in their Browser and then sign in. And Netflix is not allowed to even specify that in the app. Absolutely confusing, for normal users. Very bad user experience.&lt;p&gt;That is what I say when they are holding you as pawns. Apple is okay for you and I to go through that confusing experience, instead of allowing Netflix to tell them that users have to sign up in the browser.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Razengan</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple has done a lot to curtail scummy developer practices and protect users.&lt;p&gt;You could go over each of their App Store policies and see how few of them are &amp;quot;at the expense of their customers.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not the least are their privacy and anti-tracking protections. iOS 14 already caught many apps (including Discord and Instagram) stealing our clipboard data and secretly accessing camera, mic and location.&lt;p&gt;Claiming Google is &amp;quot;user-centric&amp;quot; and Apple isn&amp;#x27;t, usually means taking the side of the corporations that are hurt by limited access to user data.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Music on Android asks user&apos;s card details to avoid Google&apos;s 30% cut</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hb0jl8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>copp</author><text>The usual discussion on this topic goes like this:&lt;p&gt;Apple defenders - It is their right to do it, since Android store allows them.&lt;p&gt;Others - Apple is being a hypocrite. While they maintain that app store must be compensated for all the services they do to developers, When given a chance they do not agree with their above statement.&lt;p&gt;I feel w.r.t app stores, Google is User-centric, but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers. They use users as pawns, to bully the best for Apple, rather than their customers (you and I).&lt;p&gt;edit: To explain &amp;quot;user centric&amp;quot; better&lt;p&gt;Because of Apple&amp;#x27;s rules, you cannot just sign-up from Netflix app in iOS. You have to sign up in their Browser and then sign in. And Netflix is not allowed to even specify that in the app. Absolutely confusing, for normal users. Very bad user experience.&lt;p&gt;That is what I say when they are holding you as pawns. Apple is okay for you and I to go through that confusing experience, instead of allowing Netflix to tell them that users have to sign up in the browser.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyre</author><text>I would argue the reverse.&lt;p&gt;I have a HomePod and not an alexa or Google device because Apple has shown it cares about privacy. That&amp;#x27;s user-centric. Sure, we could be incredibly cynical in saying that &amp;quot;well because you buy it then it is actually Apple-centric&amp;quot;, but they clearly care about privacy.&lt;p&gt;Google to me is entirely Google-centric, which means harvesting as much data about me as possible to sell to advertisers.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m fine with Apple&amp;#x27;s walled garden. It works really, really well. People love iPhones for more than just marketing and status. They&amp;#x27;re excellent phones. And a not-insignificant piece of that experience is an ecosystem fits together nicely, with central control. Infinite choice isn&amp;#x27;t better for most people.</text></comment>