• cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    There’s lots of stuff like enforcing WebKit for browsers, iCloud for background cloud syncing, subscription disadvantages (end trial for competitor = end of period, end trial for Apple = now), giving their 1st party native apps advantageous functionality competitors can’t (yet), etc.

    This is a working list, I’ll be back

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      5 months ago

      There’s also general gatekeeping of their developer tools which restricticts ports of software, and not following standards properly (USBc, sms).

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      5 months ago

      giving their 1st party native apps advantageous functionality competitors can’t (yet)

      Perhaps one day, other developers may be allowed into the holy land of JIT recompilation.