when you open a physical store anywhere, you have to pay taxes in that country but apple doesn't because they argue because the store "is on the Internet".
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Except for the fact that there is no anticompetitive behavior, you're absolutely correct.
Do some research on Match Group. They bought up the competition (e.g. Plenty of Fish, etc.) and have a near monopoly on dating apps. Some single person in India should sue Match Group for their practices and get 10% of Match’s worldwide revenue.
They have about 9% in the Indian market. There is almost nowhere they are over 50%. In what way does that constitute “everyone”? If these apps were import to the platform, their absence would surely prevent users from adopt it, but they are not and so they do not. Only they win with these silly rules.
No different than the EU. Laws like the DMA do not apply to any EU based company, only to U.S. ones.
That is simply not true. Every App Store pays local taxes, that is one of the benefits that Apple provides developers as part of its fees.
First, where do you get "everyone" from? No, everyone is NOT on Apple's ecosystem.
Second, going elsewhere is the exact option you have. If you don't like the game, don't play. Find a game you are good at instead. You don't get the option of marching into a professional baseball stadium and demanding rule changes that allow you to compete. Don't ruin the game everyone else is playing just because your failure to meet the standards of competition makes you jealous.
Why can I install anything I want on my Mac? Is it the Wild West? Or is it that Apple under Crook only cares to ensure they take everyone for the cause of the shareholders?
The one where I cannot install anything I want on my iPhone or iPad because I am not in the EU!!!!!
And yet you knew that when you bought your iOS device.......
"without issue"...
Yeah, just computers plagued with viruses, everyone having to have a designated geek family member who can fix their computer after installing rogue apps that install crap all over the system that they can't get rid of, and "developer" being synonymous with "broke".
The concept of millionaire developers outside of mega corporations, that came along with the App Store, which is why it's become so wildly successful and ubiquitous. Being able to trust that an app won't spy on you or break your device or misuse your credit card number after you purchase a niche app — that sense of security is new. Not needing to be your entire family's resident geek, also new.
People seem to have selective memory of the "good old days".
It was an inaccurate figure of speech that was used as the premise to justify coercive and unjust corporate law that would change the world economy. But, yeah, I suppose that's a pretty chill thing since it would get people's phones filled with spyware.
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The Mac is less safe than the iPhone. By orders of magnitude. That’s a fact. Sure, Mac is safer than Windows, but Mac is a much, much, much smaller target than Windows.
Different rules are appropriate for different platforms, particularly when one of them was designed after seeing the issues with the other. The Mac was designed in a different time, without the benefit of things like downloadable software. The iPhone was designed having learned the lessons from the PC era.
The iPhone is also a much larger target than the Mac is. A vulnerability that hit 5% of iPhones would be the equivalent of hitting half of all Macs worldwide. The scale difference alone absolutely justifies stricter rules.
And everyone on MacRumors blames Tim Cook, but Steve Jobs wouldn’t have opened up the App Store. In fact, I suspect he would have pushed back harder on these power-hungry regulators making things worse for the majority of their own citizens. Remember his stance on Flash in iOS?
My 80 year old parents can use iPhones without constantly bugging me about viruses or other crazy windows/Mac issues. I am incredibly thankful to Apple for making computers so easy for them to use.
Imagine selling an App in 10 different countries by yourself. You’d have to get a tax number for each country and keep track of taxes you collect separately for each country so you could remit them later to their relevant government agency. A major hassle. On The App Store local taxes are calculated, collected and remitted on your behalf. You don’t have to do anything.
This is a major benefit for developers.
Developers would be lucky to keep 30% for themselves after everyone took their cut (publishers, distributors, retailers) in the “good old days”.
To be able to keep 70% yourself and only pay 30% to Apple and have everything done for you (storefront, payment processing, App distribution/bandwidth, tax collection and a large market of potential customers) was considered a great deal when The App Store launched. It’s why developers flocked to it and why the App market exploded.
That isn’t true at all, but if it were true it would be poetic justice for all the foreign countries extracting resources from India for centuries.
How do you not consider it anticompetitive??????? Why would governments be cracking down on them if they weren’t acting in such a manner as to not allow competition? And it’s all based on money and getting a cut.
The problem is when you’re not a market dominator you can do those things but when your tech becomes a standard, you play by different rules.
That doesn’t make it right! The point is consumers have no choice because the fact is it’s no longer free-market capitalism with competition. It’s monopolistic behavior and eliminating regulation that would impede on profits. The top 1% have gotten insanely wealthy due to the practices of the largest companies acting this way. Apple is far from the only one doing this - this is not what capitalism is about. And one day it will all come crashing down starting with the dollar and markets and then the system will have to change. You can see it in markets worldwide they end up collapsing when the wealth ends up too great by just 1% who make the rules themselves by owning and failing to regulate anticompetitive behavior in supposed free markets. When the top companies can buy every competitor, or steal developers apps, or make their own rules and ensure they keep their “30%”, the corruption fails.
Can see it right now in Venezuela - a once thriving free market economy.