Microsoft dealt with this in the 90's now it's Apple's turn.
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Apple Could Soon Face 'Sweeping' U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit
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Apple charges 15-30% for in-app purchases. VISA and MC charge 3% merchant fee for a purchase. Guess who pays the extra 12-27%? The consumer in the way of higher subscription costs and higher in-app purchase prices.
No I didn't.
I bought into the Apple "walled garden" with open eyes and on purpose. I appreciate a one stop shop for researching apps, paying for apps/subs, updating apps and customer service. As a consumer I value all of these things and am perfectly willing to pay for this one of a kind ecosystem. Hence I, believe the 30% Apple collects for these services is appropriate, app stores cost money to operate.
- I have no interest in what alt stores will bring, which is a fragmentation of the store experience, just like on the Mac/PC side. I don't want to visit every single manufacturers individual web site to research their app x10 that I can find on a web search, I want 1 stop shopping, that's what I paid for.
- I don't want to trust the bargain basement payment processors that indie devs might choose to save a couple of bucks.
- I have no interest in having to create login accounts for untold numbers of app stores. Rest assured this will occur as the likes of Epic, Amazon, Meta, Steam, Microsoft, etc. will open their own stores and pay devs for exclusive distribution.
I am not locked into it, I choose to be all-in on it. I can easily use other options while still using Apple products though as can anyone else.
Does your fudge store control half the U.S. market? Does your fudge store have the ability to lock in consumers?
I don’t think I would switch completely, but I would definitely become a part-time Android guy.
There is one power company in my town. That is a monopoly.
There is one cable company in my town. That is a monopoly.
However on my iPhone I can have dozens of messaging apps.
Yeah if Apple didn't let anyone else build messaging apps and forced people to only use iMessage and FaceTime... I'd see your point.
But they don't.
Y’all are too much lol.
I can’t wait for google to eventually be dragged for the even worse stuff they do than apple. Android is ugh
This is absolutely correct. All these Apple fans don’t realize what they’re wishing for when they think Apple should monopolize everything. They are beyond a mega corporation that completely blocks competition, robs IP, steals from App developers, and Tim Cook should be found guilty of treason for taking money from China to boost China.
Capitalism can be great, and at the same time AAPL is so big and so anti-competitive that it’s just not fair to any small or large company trying to compete. It doesn’t mean that Apple shouldn’t make money off its technologies. The problem is Apple acts like a bully. I really hope the Mosimo company wins and blocks Apple from stealing their IP and employees to steal their inner workings. I like the CEO stating he was willing to spend $100m on legal fees to stop the thieving of their teach. Sounds a lot like Steve when Google swapped Android from stealing BlackBerry to stealing iOS.
As positions change, a company needs to do better for society. They need to not ship high tech production overseas to the enemy of capitalism and democracy to China a dictatorship at best. When Tim personally gets $700m to do it to me it’s treason.
Tim has done everything he can to inflate the stock price for himself and the top 1% of stakeholders who are executives and the extremely wealthy who own so much of the stock. Tim hasn’t put the future of AAPL into a bright spot. Instead of building out a great future and bringing along a company full of well compensated millionaires who all got their due, AAPL is built so just a few at the top make all the money along with the shareholders which has been Tim’s plan all along to get the annual $100m stock grant.
I think AAPL will be better as Mac, iPhone, iPad, Accessories, and Service provider companies. At least five companies.
And people who think that AAPL hasn’t changed positions should think how Tim just a few years ago complained about Qualcomm owning the patents for 4G/5G and not allowing FRAND pricing as they were communication standards. Those standards happen over time and iMessage has become a standard.
As consumers we would all be better off having many companies competed not one company dominate, bully, and steal from the rest while eliminating competition.
Per a comment on the Verge:
"If Apple were forced to interop the iPhone with watches from competitors but those competitors weren’t forced to do the same in reverse, I don’t think a legal challenge would be hard to win"
Regarding iMessage that some politicians made a stink about recently.
"Cross-platform messaging is one of the most competitive markets in existence"
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So you like Apple stuff better, but think the grass is green over there ->
I don't understand this argument because iPhones are really competing with the high end samsung phones
All extremely good points. Why do my AirPods always play at the right volume when I connect them to an Apple device, but when I connect my Sony headphones, I always have to disconnect and reconnect in order to get volume adjustments to work correctly? Why did Apple get rid of the headphone jack at the exact moment they began pushing expensive, high-profit wireless headphones that integrate deeply with the OS in ways that their competitors can't do?
As a consumer I want more choice, not less.
As a consumer I want more choice, not less.
I don't think so, there are plenty of other Apps you can use that do the same thing.
Uhh wrong. Apple created facetime and imessage. It's like suing porsche cuz you can't get a porsche engine in your chevy malibu. See how stupid that is?
What if I told you this how everything you buy works ...
Gimmick
Google apps don’t work half the time lol
lol they literally don’t because neither iMessage or FaceTime are the most popular messaging or video chat apps in America.
Most use messenger
How is liberty dying here? How does this lawsuit take way your Constitutional rights to…anything?
The responses to this are just sad.
So Apple should be punished for making great products?
Societal pressure. There’s a reason everyone and your friend uses Apple products and it has everything to do with FaceTime and iMessage. That’s forced use of a product.