Can you please provide any legal paperwork I signed to license anything? Because anything signed after ownership is not legally binding. You understand this fundamental thing?
Please tell me what I can’t legally do with the OS apple supplied to me? I will gladly dot shy thing and and sit to apple and wait for their illegal lawsuit that will never happen.
Indeed, untill I purchase that tablet I can buy things on it, and it would be none of targets business.
Again I have never signed any legal agreement to license iOS. It’s already been ruled by EU that software EULA can be ignored as null and void.
I don’t live in USA, and EU seem to be forcing this whether apple like to or not
Well I never wanted to buy them from apple. I wanted to pay for them in their app, that exist on MY PHONE.
It being cheaper isn’t relevant in Europe. The fact apple stops different payments system after the purchase is done is the problem.
I mean your house…
If apple want’s more money they can ether increase the cost for selling on the store, increase the split or do like Epic and have a license agreement requesting a 12% cut of any revenue done with apple Xcode. Apple would just not be allowed to stop other programs to be used.
Streaming something isn’t circumventing anything. Does Netflix circumvent apple apps tire by allowing people to use a glorified web browser in an app?
A link inside the app is a good thing for everyone else. I’m glad Epic sacrificed themself for the greater good.
That’s okey m, I have no problem with this
That’s a big BiG problem. This is anti competitive against competing payment systems.
What are you even trying to say 😂 iOS apps aren’t available anywhere else but the apple store. Only books, streaming services and in app purchase can be bought somewhere else. Come back when an Xbox game or target have an app I can just install on my phone and we can talk.
That’s completely okey. Me having this availability won’t affect you in any way.
EPIC through money strait into the garbage with this lawsuit. Well it went to lawyers and they had to pay back Apple but, seriously it went strait into the garbage.
who invented what the dev’s use to make their money?
You can’t reverse engineer iOS and sell it on non-iOS hardware.
You are free to believe the earth is flat despite all the evidence present. Your are also free to believe other factual information is a 'lie'. However, just because you believe in such ridiculous notions, it doesn't make it so.
The smartphone market was huge in 2006? Is that a joke? About 3% of the population had a smartphone in 2006. These days it’s over 80%. And Apple and Google succeeded by offering something that was friendly and useful to everyday consumers. Nobody had done that before, everything was business oriented before that. Everybody was on a level playing field back then as nobody had an App Store with millions of apps already on it. Anyone trying to come into the market these days are at an insurmountable disadvantage because without apps there are few potential consumers and with few potential consumers you’ll never get market penetration to the point where devs see value in developing for your platform.
Actually, apparently they’re not free to continue with business as usual. We’re seeing that reality play out in courts and legislatures all over the world.
Right now it is business as usual. It may not be shortly. There could be countries without app stores, who knows? But then again that won’t be BAU.
That seems to be exactly what people are arguing. They EPIC (in this case) want to bypass the store entirely. They want Apples customers and they don't want to pay Apple anything for it (anymore).
Your not forced. You can go to EPIC's site and get your digital coins or IN-App-Stuff outside of Apple entirely. It works across consoles as well.
Let us know when it's the law of the land. I don't see any changes as of yet on my iPhone's appstore.
You didn't "sign" for anything, you agreed to the terms and conditions (EULA)
You can do what you wish with it. But if you try and resell a modified version of it, they can sue you.
Target doesn't make the tablet. IF they did, and they forked an Android OS on it (A la Amazon), and they had an Appstore on it. They would/could setup the same set of rules as everyone else.
The EU. "
Go ahead and force it EU. Force it good and hard.
So Apple should wait for what, each quarter to collect? Year? When should the Apple tax man come by and collect? Should Xcode cost $10k? What about $100k? US or Euro?
I'm glad they did too. To show everyone else how not to be a dumb F***.
I can't use my purchase of an Xbox game on my Playstation if they both have the same game. I can't use my purchase from Android for an App to apply on iOS. BUT, I can get my in-app-purchases to link up. Even if I bought it someplace else.
You’re in the U.S. so you wouldn’t be likely to see anything until December at the earliest.
Apple won 9 out of 10 elements of the lawsuit. That's a great result! They are appealing the one count that they didn't win, and are perfectly within their rights to do so.
Apples and oranges comparison. Netflix has an array of VoD movies and TV shows, but these are not supplied by Apple. If a game offers add-ons to supplement their gameplay, they are supplied by Apple.
I think it is exactly the opposite. The membership fees allows anyone to place their app in the store. It supports the core functionality of signing and allowing apps to be downloaded anywhere in the world.
If this "Not everyone want a giant mega corp to have total control of his/her life and determine what decision he/she should make" actually describes your life, you probably should swear off digital devices.
And it sold out with lines around blocks all over the world. And with only one carrier in each country. And it sold with a contract and without any price concession. Something that was unheard of at the time when phones were free (or close enough to it) with contracts. At least in the US and some other countries - I can’t speak to all of them.
I wanted to respond to this point in particular. If I buy a game at Target the developer is absolutely allowed to include all kinds of advertisements in the game box for micro-transactions that you can buy from them. Target would not get a cut of those purchases even though you bought the game there. Developers could even advertise in the game itself that you can purchase various micro-transactions and Target does not get a cut of those either, even though the game itself was purchased there. The developers app is not Apple’s store any more than the game I bought at Target is Target’s store.
