| ▲ | ninkendo 7 hours ago | |
The fact we still can't get this in the US is atrocious. They have already paid the cost to implement this for the EU and Japan, but simply don't allow it for US users because... spite, I guess? Horrible. It reminds me of when I asked for my account to be deleted from some online learning site (Udacity maybe?) And they're response was: "Nope, we only do that for European users." Like they went through all the effort of implementing a proper way to delete your data, but they just... don't do it if you're not in the right geographic area. | ||
| ▲ | swiftcoder 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> They have already paid the cost to implement this for the EU and Japan, but simply don't allow it for US users because... If by "this", you mean "a set of rules so complicated that no 3rd party will ever ship a browser"... In practice, they've shipped a whole lot of nothing, and we still don't have any 3rd party browser engines available in the EU | ||
| ▲ | __aru 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> The fact we still can't get this in the US is atrocious. To be honest, I suspect that Apple is purposefully doing this to make alternatives a logistical and legal nightmare vs their own App store. By having different rules for different countries, different fee structures, etc, Apple is basically making alternatives as inconvenient and painful as legally possible The US not getting these features is on purpose, it makes the entire idea of "alternatives on iOS" extremely inconvenient vs just using the App store. | ||