Never gonna happen. Though it is sometimes nice to think about.
By the way, investigating behavior over "not allowing customers to transfer purchased apps between platforms?" Really? Yes, software coded in Objective-C using Cocoa Touch APIs is transferable between entirely different software platforms.
. Or wait, they mean developers should GIVE their software away to users who bought their software on other platforms, and just completely ignore the work they did to bring that software from one platform to another.
Lets just force all platforms to run on the same kernel with the same APIs and development environment using the same language. Yes, that would kill ALL innovation at the software level. Lets just turn software into a commodity rather than an art form. Software prices are already at give-away prices, lets just take it even further. Rather than appreciating the quality of software that can be had these days for insanely low prices, in your pocket everywhere you go.
I wish governments would become more technically enlightened before trying to poke their noses in an area they have literally zero knowledge about.
Yay for devs not knowing anything about business!
A lot of software is compatible with different platforms these days, via emulation, virtualization, or just outright conversion. For instance, no one is going after Steam for this. Why? Steam offers you the game on multiple platforms at no extra cost-IF THE GAME EXISTS ON THE OTHER PLATFORMS.
The way the App store is set up, this is simply not possible. Apple refuses to provide service to any other OS and refuses to allow any other app store on its own software, rendering this possibility impossible.
No one is telling Devs that they shouldn't be paid for the work they do; if they have to give away copies of the game on all platforms they support, they can: Charge more (value added), or look at it as a new feature given (again, value added), or complain about how their users should buy as many copies of their game as possible even if the user has already bought it (ignoring that this type of thing leads to piracy in a lot of circumstances because the game ceases to be something someone bought).
I mean, I'll grant that this is a very weak case in my opinion from what I've read (I'm not in the court). I don't necessarily agree that you should be forced to give away apps, for all intents and purposes, on other platforms. However, saying that courts don't know what they're talking about is just...well, garbage. The only way I can understand the position you take is if you're a developer. As a consumer, I don't see why this would ever be a problem, and again, there are ways to make this happen in a clean, logical manner.
as goverment regulators
always can find troublesome items in corporative contracts. The thing right now, Apple is becoming the Ivory Tower for claims, class action suites, demands and the like. Big pockets dont play in favour of Apple, less in Europe where too many people have Anti-american attitudes and rethorics.....Would be wise if Apple adjust their requeriments/contracts based more firmly in local marketing conditions. I had seen Apple gone to great lenghts to take a foothold in the Chinese market. Can this signal a deliberate or an accidental omision from Apple?.....Corporative complot theoricists welcome....
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I'm not convinced what is going on with Apple is anything of the sort. Considering how much money they take in, I'm not convinced they get sued nearly the same amount per dollar of revenue as other companies.
Furthermore, Apple does a lot of suing themselves. And Apple has cribbed many technologies. And, frankly, I'm aware of any open standards Apple creates (they seem to just patent it and keep it in-house, not even for licensing a lot of the time, and very seldom create essentials). So...
Europe? Anti-American? I've seldom encountered it. Yes, there are loudmouth jerks over there (the first person I ever met on the mainland was because he was shouting at me for being American when I was trying to order food), but that's roughly all I've encountered. As a Jew, I've encountered a lot more anti-Semitism than anti-Americanism in Europe. They're not going after Apple because they're American. And whether or not Apple is much of an American company at the moment is debated anyway-our government goes after Apple for incorporating in Europe to escape tax laws of our country, remember? And Apple makes how many products here? A vaporware Mac Pro?
