Developers make money on Ad's. There are games that have IAP, and the 30% certainly applies to them. But, there are ways to ensure you never pay apple anything more than the $99 yearly fee and whatever it cost to get a mac to develop on. Even with EPIC's rule of no charge for the first $1 million sales. Still acknowledges that there is a cost to provide this service. They may have other ways to make up the difference. They would be foolish not to have other ways to make it up. Or they are getting subsidized by other means. Either way, it's not for you or anyone else to say what Apple should or should not be making or charging for something they created. The market decides that. People no longer shopping on the store decides that.
Competition is great. EPIC can invest in making their own device to compete with Apple on. They already have a store, they support multiple platforms and OS's and hardware's. Team up with a hardware maker in phones or portable devices and compete to their hearts content. I bough Apple for exactly what it is. I don't need anyone taking away what I have. You're free to do with it whatever you are capable of doing with it. No one is stopping you, you just don't get support from Apple to do it.
First it’s ludicrous to make a device to compete on a service. Am o to make a car just to compete with repairing paint jobs?
Nobody have questioned the fact it cost to run a store, they make money from the ones that earns more than a million a year. They don’t have a rule for the first million, it’s every single million every year. They think they’ll make money by offering them better services and opportunities.
The question is the only way the market decides is by throwing out the baby with the bathwater, the store simply sucks but it’s what they have to deal with.
Of the two, I pick Apple to have my best interest in mind. If I didn't feel that way. I would pick a different platform.
It's funny that I keep hearing about these games, and somehow none of them have ever bothered me on my device.
But, if I had to rely on say EPIC having a store. I already see the ads popping up on my Windows PC endlessly. I would rather that not happen to my phone just because I installed their store. And or whatever else they feel I "need" in order for the application to work properly. I don't seem to get ads in my wallet either. I must be lucky then.
Apple could have the worst intentions yet the competitors might actually doing the worst so you stay.They are primarily for profit seeking ventures, not a charity. And yes these games don’t bother you because you’re not the one purchasing them, but there’s a lot of Apple users who are purchasing these gambling products that does everything they can to rip you off and Apple is fine with it as they are mighty profitable. And did you miss the entire F1 add complaints?
Apple today sent out an ad to some iPhone users in the form of a Wallet app push notification, and not everyone is happy about it. An unknown...
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I never installed Cydia. I honestly never had the need. When I first got an iPhone it already had a store and 90% of what I needed a phone for it came installed by default. Overtime, as more applications became available, and the phone got better at doing things. I still never had a need to install anything that wasn't already available via the Store, or built in by default.
YES. Forever. Some of these businesses would not even exist if for not the iPhone. To be on a platform with world wide access in an instant. Yeah, be grateful forever thank you very much. To the M$ or Adobes of the world. Yeah they would have been fine without the iPhone for sure. But they also sold these products in stores at the time and paid more than 30% for the ability to do so.
There was what you had to do. Example being able to use the flash as a flashlight with a dedicated button, with the iPhone 4. Or being able to film video with the iPhone instead of only taking pictures. Or just having the settings bar to lower screen brightness and other settings without having to exit the app and enter the settings, multitasking, proper Adblocking etc etc.
The Adobe and MS of the world already sold their software in online stores and their own websites.
The. Apple should stop complaining when they think they’re paying too much royalties for licenses and parts when they wouldn’t even exist without them. Terms pence accepted to then be renegotiated.
Two titans of the mobile phone business are slugging it out in court
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People and businesses can get annoyed at anything they want. My question to them is "Are you making money on the platform?"
Since I had Netflix before I had an iPhone (DVD rental service). This was never an issue. I would assume many people had Netflix early on as well. So going to a web page to sign up (on the same phone by the way), if it was your first time doing so. Really did not cause the uproar some are making it out to be. It's an inconvenience, sure. Is it going to prevent people from getting what they want? I would very much argue it has not. Even with Apple TV+ costing LESS and being baked into the device(s). Netflix is doing well, and continues to do so. So it's not about price, it is about what people want. And Apple doesn't prevent Netflix from offering to sell the service via the App. Netflix just doesn't want to give Apple a cut of the sale. And that is their right to feel that way. Same for Spotify. Are they hurting for sales? Are people so annoyed that they can't sign up via the App that they DON'T? Does not seem to be the case at all.
Like I stated above, it's not really an issue. It's an inconvenience, but it's not an issue. And it doesn't require any government to come up with any laws to fix. There is a work around.
An inconvenience is a revenue issue. They would make more money if users could subscribe directly from the app, but they don’t think it would make them more money than refusing to allowing. Especially when you require to have 30%+ margins. And sometimes you’re just forced to provide IAP despite you not wanting to.
Apple strongarmed another independent email app
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CODB. Cost of doing business. Some how, some way. We have APPS galore. Despite what you stated above. Everyone has costs. Apple has costs. What they provide is not free. So many people think because Apple has the solutions in place, and the costs of running it is now much cheaper than it ever was. Miss the point that it is a business in and of itself. And to maintain that business it must continue to make money. CODB.
The customers to sell that too. I bought an iPhone because I wanted what Apple has to sell. I didn't buy the iPhone for EPIC games. If you bought an iPhone with the intention of it working exactly the way you want it to. You bought the wrong device. If you have the ability to bend the device to your wills, that's fine. And you can do so. Just without Apple's help.
I bought my iPhone to be a useful device for me. I didn’t buy it for the different apps, I just found the usefulness of said apps. I bought infinity blade because I found it. Epic store=/= Epic games.
I had to modify my device to make it more functional or to get access to apps that wasn’t available or to improve privacy etc etc.
These are the choices we have. And you're free to make any suggestions to Apple or other manufacturers for things you feel would make the products better. But, none of them are under any obligation to do so. What makes Apple "Apple", is because they control the whole widget. And from that control you get a product that you either love or not. You're not required to love it, or like it or buy it. If they don't make what you want, you are free to go elsewhere. It's not their fault other options are worse. If you want better. Got and create it. You would have many people banging down your doors for such a product.
Because Samsung now understands that if they control the product, they can make a better one. It's not going to be better for everyone, and many will not like it. But, you can pick up a Pixel or a Asus phone one of many other brands that make phones. Samsung isn't a charity, nor is Apple. They make what they make. Like it love it hate it want it, but pick the one that best suits your needs.
Well I do make suggestions and I can hold the beliefs that Apple or other are violating some rights of mine and that some representatives of mine should protect said rights and act on it.
Just if facebook or google wants to profit of my data o have acted to prevent them to do so by legal means because they refused to change their product to be better.
Samsung have the Google Play store. They don’t profit off it.
Lo and behold you have the ability to use Linux and even Nvidia GPU's for your computing needs. Others will pick up a mac mini and be happy with its performance. Or a Studio as they may need more. Others will use the cloud for such computing needs, be it gaming or development. The world has plenty of options to suit almost everyone.
I would add that when Apple had both AMD and Nvidia options. They most likely did not sell as well as the M series chip versions do now.
Lo and behold my vast software and gaming library doesn’t work on Linux 🤷♂️ so I’m using what I have.
The M ship can be the best in the world, It still is fairly inadequate compared to dedicated hardware and I can’t use a GPU in a Mac Pro so I again had to abandon the Mac hardware to run windows on standard AMD components.
I don’t see why you would ever use cloud computing and stream games, but I rather own and run it locally compared to pay a subscription and more for it than it’s worth.
It would be no matter what platform you were on. Unless the application was multiplatform and subscription based. Moving from one to another will generally cost you.
If that continues to work for you, that's great.
Hence why the best option for everyone is a store for those who find the dedicated AppStore inadequate or poorly designed as a general service instead of specialized services such as steam.
If I’m using windows, Linux or macOS i can get software from anywhere to compete and contrast the stores service quality and library.
To use a proper browser that blocks adds and tracking superior than iOS allows for etc etc
. But contrary to Netflix or Spotify you pay in the app. 
