Typical visits to Apple's software department store, the App Store, now have a similar effect. While MAC users have the opportunity to obtain applications and games directly from the manufacturers, customers with iPhones and iPads have had to buy in the App Store for years.
The impression is that the customer is by no means king at Apple. Where there was once a safe source for tested, hand-picked programs, supposed free apps dominate that quickly ask the user to checkout. Mac & i shows where it hooks at the app store.
That was the reading sample of our Heise Plus article “Nerve factor App Store: Why Apple's software shop has to get better”. With a Heise Plus subscription you can read and listen to the whole article.
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