Apple Can't Escape Dutch App Store Antitrust Lawsuit, EU Court Rules

[turbineseaplane]

If Apple didn’t offer in app purchases developers would be screaming.

Now perhaps, but Apple didn't have to offer it in the first place.

Worth considering that it could be a better and different place had that happened.

As you know, what Apple does has a large impact on where things go in these spaces.

If Apple decided non IAP was simply "better" for its customers, devs would fall in line.
It would be a remarkably "Apple" (the old Apple at least) move actually.

All that aside, I still maintain that they should be requiring a pay one time option* from all Apps, even if they offer IAP.

*again, this could have limitations by iOS version(s)

 

[Unregistered 4U]

If Apple didn’t offer in app purchases developers would be screaming.

They added IAP’s in 2009, two years after the App Store was introduced, because developers that were making big money this way elsewhere wanted to do the same on the iPhone. With all of the hubbub about the commission structure that EVERY company that sells third party content uses, directed at Apple, it’s guaranteed that if the Free + IAP model that EVERY company that sells third party content was using was rejected at Apple, there would have been legal challenges.

Apple was able to avoid legal challenges by bending over backwards over and over again until “A company having complete control over the things a company develops and produces” became illegal in some regions, specifically only if those companies had reached a very particular amount of success PRIOR to the implementation of the novel law.

 

[Sophisticatednut]

What they DON’T want to say is it’s because of how much money they made compared to their efforts on Android (IF they even tried on Android). I would figure that they think Steve Jobs just came up with the name Apple computer and then the ENTIRE world did all the product development and marketing for them.

Folks that think of themselves as business people that expect business to be easy and for everything to be provided just as they like it don’t really understand how business works.

Considering this has to do with dating apps so it’s. Android people who dates will be unreasonably constrained if iPhone users can’t use the same features and pay competitive prices.

So stating ”…compared to their efforts on Android” makes zero sense