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Apple Accused of Running a ‘Walled Garden’ by Canadian Legal Watchdog CIPPIC (www.iphoneincanada.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, or CIPPIC, is described as “Canada‘s first and only public interest technology law clinic” and is operated out of University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law

Peter Nowak is also covering this at his substack.

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[–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Have you used the Apple App Store recently? It’s a cesspool of apps using dark patterns, gaming the rankings, stuffing keywords, tricking users who meant to install something else. Everything is “free” but needs “in-app purchases” to unlock the functionality that is implied. Apple is no longer protecting the user here.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    And the App Store is one of the things I clearly pointed out as needing improvement, albeit not with this exact example. Apple makes more than enough money off of developer fees to hire more people to police standards and provide a more effective method of dealing with developer complaints and issues without resorting to highly error-prone automation.

    I mean, I never said Apple was perfect, only that they are clearly doing something “more right” than others, as evidenced by consumer choice… within North America, Apple phones out-number Android (not specific brands, all Android phones, COMBINED) by 16%. As in, Apple has a market share of 58% in North America.

    It’s only elsewhere in the world, where much poorer populations are simply not able to afford Apple products, where Android dominates. And even there, those who have the money to do so tend to choose Apple phones.

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