Hang on, developers are the ones complaining about one of the two options available.
When all the apps are only on third party stores, like it is on the Mac, you'll change your mind.
No, Epic is complaining. They don't speak for developers collectively.
When they start interfering with this freedom of choice, the only satisfaction I get is knowing that even if those regulators get their way, it doesn't turn out the way they wanted. Like GDPR.
Yes, there's Android. Go use that.
Developers complain about Apple’s enormous market power, not that there are too few platforms. The former is simply a consequence of the latter. Devs want to reach as many potential customers as possible with the least amount of resources. Efficiency, same as any other company. If there were four OS’s in the market and two had 45% market share each and the other two only had 5% each, the vast majority of devs would develop for the big two and say forget about the other smaller two, the return on investment won’t be worth it.
Yes, I can’t wait to use Mapquest and print out directions on my home printer rather than use a smartphone the next time I need to get somewhere new. Let’s live like it’s 2001 again.
But the developers actions are precisely what causes the concentration of power. They need to stop preferencing certain platforms over others. If app developers had bothered themselves to make their apps for iOS, android and windows phone then there would be less power concentration at the OS layer.
Devs certainly play a role, but it’s also consumers and the smartphone companies as well that caused the concentration. Apple basically invented the modern smartphone so it’s no surprise consumers chose them in significant numbers. I’m not really sure why Google was able to beat out both MS and RIM, but they did. And smaller devs aren’t necessarily going to have the resources to develop for a bunch of platforms, even if they wanted to. Even if major players are on all the platforms, if popular apps from smaller devs aren’t on the lesser platforms, that’s still going to draw people away from those smaller platforms. A small dev isn’t going to go on some crusade in an effort to maximize the number of platforms at the expense of their own business.
I doubt apps will be offered on 3rd party app stores and not on apple’s. Maybe the other way around.
So if the competitive market has spoken and this is what consumers and developers have chosen, then what is the problem?
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It's better to have a smartphone, but it's not a big deal because nothing has become reliant on smartphones. It's not like using a 2001 Macintosh today, which is much worse than using the same machine in 2001 when software and websites were designed for it.
Agreed mate. I dunno why people think they have to be for/against a company in litigation.
Oeniga a product doesn’t mean I can sell copies of Thai product. It would still infringe on their copy rights. I could sell my iPhone with jailbreak already installed etc
Apple do care, otherwise they wouldn’t explicitly say so in the EULA.
I can make as many copies as I want of my DVD, movies, games iPhone OSs etc as for private use. Because I own that copy I payed for and can modify indiscriminately
That’s why I only mentioned visa and MasterCard.
It means its irrelevant what a random US court thinks if EU decide it is. Apple will jut add apt to the biggest market
It didn’t, it was a Pr ******** and apple stopped using the loophole before the trial ended. If it was perfect they would still use it.
It’s already here. It will be implemented in 2023 as borth parlament and the commission have shown overwhelming support and practicaly guaranteed to pass
But Epic didn’t hurt them.
The devs believe the problem is that the resulting market has led Apple and Google to have too much power and that they’ve used it in an anti-competitive manner. Based on court and legislative actions we’re seeing the world over, there seems to be some merit to that belief.
Yes, Amex lends money (as well as processes payments) which is why you couldn’t mention it.
The US trial boiled down to a contractual dispute which epic lost. That doesn’t bode well for devs telling apple how to run their business.
I’m not sure 33% correct is anything to brag about.
I’ve seen people mention the fact that Apple is appealing the last point they lost on and that it could be overturned. Epic is also appealing and those other nine points could be overturned as well. And it’s a good thing the US isn’t the only country in the world. Apple’s already been forced to make changes and this doesn’t appear to be the last of it.
