Yes. The DMA is making it difficult to comply and hence Apple has to jump through hoops.
The DMA is very frustrating I agree. The eu can’t come out and say outright we don’t you, Apple, to make any money from your App Store. Therefore after studying apples model for a bit they crafted legislation designed to make it difficult for apple to make service revenue in the eu. And here we are today.
Probably indefinitely considering it’s the same thing they have for UE5 developers. And if Apple makes it free to sideloading it would make it cheaper for the epic store considering they are currently paying all the CTF for the developers
He… no the fines Apple can get can absolutely wipe out any revenue Apple made from the store.EU: "You can't force all developers to give you money"
: "It's for the safety of users"
EU: "It has nothing to do with safety"
EU: "You think this is a joke?"
EU: "Dude..."
By the time Apple actually complies and gives iPhone users who paid hundreds of dollars for their phones the ability to install what they want and pay how they want, they'll have squeezed so much money out of the market that no fine could possibly take back a relevant percentage of what has been extorted through the years.
While I'm not one who thinks Apple is going to pull out of the EU, if the EU starts fining Apple more than Apple makes in the EU it absolutely will.
Users don't even know what's going on.
Indeed and that’s a benefit of alternative stores to provide that. If Apple don’t want the latest 50 shades of grey the game they can block that and those who like that can go somewhere else that offers it
No need as it’s blocking the server connection through the network. Effectively how addblocking on router level works
Multiple engines lowers the attack surface. If I’m using my own browser engine that is much safer. How will they attack me if they can just assume I’m using WebKit and attack from that angle?
If the user is breaking the law that’s on the user and not Apple. And if Apple don’t want to support emulators( as they now kind of do) they can let other stores do that.
Well Xcode 🤷♂️
Obviously, but it’s possible Apple can be fined and lose any revenue they made by trying to stall the DMA compliance and effectively make it more expensive to cooperate and not drag it out
I’m not entirely sure that would help. Apple monetises developer access to the iOS platform via the App Store.
So why does that only apply to iOS (and by extension iPad OS)?
So the answer is no. You believe somehow that MR has knowledge superiority over a “regular” user. The masses, then hundreds of millions of customer, who spend on apples products and services are uneducated and have the wool pulled over their eyes?
Who said it should only apply to iOS? Same for any company that makes a platform. Android should be run however Google wants. Steam should run however steam chooses to run it. Epic, Spotify, Apple Music, etc. All of it.
You misunderstood and twisted all I'm saying.
Please explain how Apple is "illegally" taking some of the money?
Agree Apple needs to follow the law. But if Apple thinks the law is immoral/wrong, shouldn't Apple comply to the least extent allowed, in a way that results in the least amount of harm to Apple and its users?
Seriously. All the controls Apple wants can't stop general users clicking on a spam email or a phishing SMS. They've made them so reliant on Apple to fix their problems for them that it's made them easier prey for wider scams. The amount of WhatsApp scams around is ridiculous and this is but one siloed app controlled by one company.
There are alternatives to Apple products.
No they are not. They are doing what is legally allowed and customers are well within their rights to buy somewhere else.
Well then devs could fund their own infrastructure. That’s what happens when one relies on someone else for their goods.
Apple respects the laws and legally fights as it can.
I agree wholeheartedly that we should be educating children and adults on how to better recognize scams and malicious actors, but you can't just wave a magic wand say "there, that solves the issue."
No, consumers want a choice, both sides in this are bad. Those using outside links have mostly dropped the option for App Store payments.
I suspect you realize thats exactly why Google is worth over two trillion dollars.
That sounds appropriate as long as Epic does the same licensing with the Epic Games store vs the Unreal engine. After all, they are only providing dev tools.
It's not an instant fix, but it is the digital equivalent of teaching a man to fish. Everyone should be more digitally aware and we don't achieve this by mollycoddling them. And we certainly don't do it by entrusting the entire stack to a single unaccountable tech firm with their own agenda.
Apps programmed against a specific Windows API only work on a supported operating system invented by and owned by one single company. Should Microsoft have 100% control over everything about that operating system? Would Microsoft be within their rights (not in the legal sense but in terms of what you consider fair) if they activated a switch they had secretly put in every Windows version since Windows 95 that would block each 3rd-party application from running unless its developer paid Microsoft one million dollars? Then you couldn't run those Windows apps you had bought and whose developer refused to pay Microsoft's extortion fee.
1. You can't really divide markets down until you make the point you want. Me saying my smart sprinkler company has a monopoly on apps which can run on my smart sprinkler is more obviously ludicrous.
