Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Bite me. PS: It' Murder Drones, free on YT if ya eanna watch. Fun, condensed af, slightly scatterbrained in beginning tho (gets more focused later on). Whole one season.

Did not know about the API. This clears a lot, thanks. And about closed garden being wanted - if evrything goes through the people who made the thing, then these things are guaranteed to work on the thing. No wondering, no thinking, it just works. And such closed and tight thing was something I heard from people boasting iphones as best thing.

But part of the reason Apple is dominant is their closed garden approach - that is literally part of their product. I cannot understand how that's a bad thing. For me it's akin to a flute manufacturer producing flutes and everything is okay until they get popular. Suddenly they are hated because they don't produce flutes incorporating parts from different manufacturers? Even if they produce them to allow exchanging the parts? Same for Microsoft and their Internet Explorer case. I didn't understand back then I don't understand now why they lost lawsuit if they didn't, IIRC, block you from installing anything else. It would be different matter for me if it was for example Windows explictly blocking you from downloading another browser than Internet Explorer. That's abuse. But just having a default made by the same company being bad?

But you are not enforced to use Windows or Android. Closed ecosystem is part of the product in this case. Nobody stops anyone else from creating, for example, Linux. So how is it anti-competetive?

Okay. One question. Why would company A need to accomodate any other "app store" in their product, especially if one of their product's selling point is how streamlined it is? I am not even talking about apple but in general, alas even in their case - they made it clear how it works. People accepted it and bought their product. It doesn't hurt anyone, and they are not the only player either. So why attack them now? On what basis?