Let's see it with a differente example. You are Nike, a big shoe distributor sells your shoes in their store and gets a 30% cut but forbids you offering your own brand anywhere else and once DMA forces them to let you do so, they still want to have control over which shoes you will be allowed to sell outside their store but still demand a cut without using their storefront or building. Sounds fair to you?
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Apple Announces Ability to Download iPhone Apps From Websites in EU
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Knowing how people are it’s not restrictive enough.
What kind of competition? It can't be price competition since mobile already has the lowest prices for apps relative to other platforms like desktop/laptop and video game consoles.
macOS/Linux/Windows didn't start off with store only.
It actually means less profit for Apple from Game developers. BIG RESPECT to Epic Games for being brave enough to challenge the Goliath in the first place!And, solidifying Apple’s marketshare in the EU.Fortunately for Apple, their growing share of the EU market is set to get even larger. Is this what they meant by increasing competition?
Epic didn't have any risk. Fortnite wasn't developed for mobile and made 85% of its revenue on consoles/PC.
neither did iOS, steve jobs wanted developers to write Web Applications. The AppStore launched later.
funny how I was able to do an App Store refund of every single IAP purchase from Asphalt Overdrive after Gameloft shut the game down.
imagine doing that had I did IAP from Asphalt XYZ downloaded from the web.
quite literally better via App Store.
LOL...Epic and Microsoft are the Goliaths for gaming on desktop/laptop and consoles. Mobile gaming was actually a change from the status quo.
It is actually the other way around.
"nah you gotta go to the Apple store and download because Apple wants more money"
That comparison doesn’t work…one is about whether or not the App Store constitutes some secret nefarious scheme by Apple to be a “monopoly“, the other is about connectivity specs.
Then how is downloading software only through the appstore safer than using a companies own website if both have similar risks?
Since you can already do that as a developer, you’re not waiting for it.
According to Apple there aren't many viruses or scam on Mac, no?
Yeah, share your credit card, billing address, and other personal information with strangers.I can foresee lots of fake websites distributing malware and stealing user information.
True, Mac users are already able to download apps off websites, but these users are mainly adults with at least an inch of brain, able to detect danger.
Phone users range from children to the elderly, a wide range of vulnerable users who may not be able to perceive any danger.
If this is what the EU wants, they are going to be sorry.
I don't agree with Sony locking Playstation down
I don't agree with Microsoft locking Xbox down
I don't agree with Nintendo locking Switch down
I don't agree with Tesla locking Model S/3/X/Y/Cybertruck down
I don't agree with Canon locking their cameras down
Doesn't mean I can willy nilly force them open.
There are many, and while these can't directly infect the Mac, these will fool the user to install them and give them full rights to the Mac.
There is something called PayPal if you are unsure whom you are gonna give your credit card details. Like Apps don't exist in the AppStore that harvest user information (Temu, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook etc.)
And? People click yes yes yes yes yes yes during installation of Adobe products. Same problem would have still happened.
I love how you think I'm out of arguments.
Imagine a dude going to the Genius Bar and having the Genius say "Well I don't have any problems"
you don't just ignore an example that defeats your argument.
Compared to say Windows yes, but compared to iOS the situation is far worse (according to Apple)
The level of Mac malware is not acceptable, says Apple’s Craig Federighi at Epic trial
He said iOS “would get run over” if it was open like macOS.
www.theverge.com
context is native apps.
but glad you think app developers should just write web apps if it was all the same which means this whole controversy was pointless. if not, why did you bring that up?
Sure, I don't mind paying more if they actually build something better. If not, and if they continue to push out software updates that turn a normally working phone into a space heater, I'll be forced to look elsewhere. At the same time they need to address issues with eyestrain and headaches. There is a point at which even those with inertia will start to move away from the Apple ecosystem. At that point, it's all over for Apple.
1) So because someone prefers not to read or think and clicks on every "yes" button, it's a problem of althertive sources.
2) Did you forget the classic: You're holding it wrong? Also the "Genius bar" isn't so genius as you may think, they are standard Electronic store sellers following Apple's guidelines.