This is completely off topic, but I do love RC Cola. To the point that I buy Keurig Dr Pepper stock (formerly Dr Pepper Snapple co). In many places Dr Pepper and their other sodas are bottled by the regional cocacola bottling company. I don't know if it's fact, but I always assumed the reason it's so hard to find is because Coke refused to bottle RC. Kind of like Apple refusing to let an app in the App store that competes with something they make.
Kind of like Apple refusing to let an app in the App store that competes with something they make
Well seeing that for every product Apple sells or give away, there are competing products in the App Store, there is an existence proof that this isn’t true....
Siri - Alexa App is on the App Store as well as Google assistant
Apple Pay - there are plenty of QR code based pay apps on the store
AirDrop - any one can write a share sheet extension to duplicate the functionality.
Phone app - there has been a voip API that let third party apps integrate with the native phone screen forever. Hopefully you don’t consider third party apps being able to intercept phone calls a “feature”? How many security issues have arisen because of that on Android?
AppleTV - you mean a remote app? Streaming from your phone - the Roku app lets you stream video from your phone and Apple just announced third party AirPlay integration.
SMS App- Google Voice. If you mean allowing third parties to intercept your native SMS phone messages, that has been one of the many security nightmares on Android.
Also “as far as the App Store itself”, the original poster said that there are no products “in the App Store”. Are you expecting Apple to sell an App Store within the App Store?
