1. Don't buy Apple.
2. What does that have to do with Spotify not wanting to pay IAP fees?
3. Should Spotify also allow you to "sideload" the mp3s you bought from bandcamp into their player?
2. What does that have to do with Spotify not wanting to pay IAP fees?
3. Should Spotify also allow you to "sideload" the mp3s you bought from bandcamp into their player?
There are hundreds of phones available and most have different variations of Android with their own features and restrictions.
It's a really basic point and I have no idea what's so hard to understand.
An academic exercise of open source isn't an excuse for an actually functional and useful daily driver. We've come as a society to the point where the absence of a cell phone makes you a second-class citizen.
Microsoft got in trouble for the much less bad act of merely bundling a browser with the OS.
Imagine how much worse it would be if they took 30% of every transaction on every computer in the world.
And on the Unix side it's slightly better where you can download apps outside of the Unix Store but they don't autoupdate while easily having the ability to, and that any OEM that doesn't install Unix Store Services gets their Android license removed or severely limited.
That's basically how it's like.