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> any app that encourages you to use your phone less is not appropriate for the app store

How can this be legal?

Why would it be illegal? If Best Buy didn't want to stock a physical product that made it easier to buy things online instead of getting them at Best Buy, why should they have to stock it?

One key distinction might be that Best Buy doesn't appear to be an open marketplace. Best Buy has to purchase from the maker, to sell, whereas app marketplaces do not purchase, they just make available. I don't know if that has any standing in court, but it's important that we recognize that the brick and mortar comparison does fail to completely encapsulate what we're talking about.

>open

>Apple

I wouldn't expect anything made by Apple to be open in any way

Swift and Darwin

It very well may not be, or at least subject to anti-monopoly laws.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-appeals-court-reopens-lawsui...

Yeah, that lawsuit is not going to go anywhere. Apple is not even close to a monopoly.

How could it be illegal? Their app store, their rules.

That said, I think it's ridiculous.

Apple is not obligated to give you any way to run any software at all on the phone they sell. Luckily the vendor whose share dominate s this market does offer you just that: a way to run any software you choose.

Let's please not pick up our anti trust pitchforks to take the minority share luxury brand to task. This behavior is not at all new btw. The app store is as restrictive as it's always been and they've never offered an "allow install from unknown sources".

If you don't like it, don't buy apple.

Uh, it's their platform, their rules?

Well it is Apple's store, they can pick and choose what they want to sell just like any other store.

How could this be illegal?

are you kidding? it's their app store. legal doesn't even enter into it.

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