My parents with nearly 80ys and zero computer knowledge, using their Android Phones since many years must be Jedis, because they never got scammed.
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Apple Fined Another 5 Million Euros by Dutch Competition Regulator Over Dating App Payment Requirements
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If you think the yearly entrance fee covers their costs, I have a bridge to sell you.
Ah yes, “business”, where a government comes in with their goons, says “this is a nice place you got going here, sure be a shame if anything happened”.
Pretty sure that’s called an extortion racket.
And what about all the apps on the App Store that sell non-digital goods. Is everyone buying something from Amazon, Target, Walmart, Panera, Uber etc. not safe because they’re not using Apple’s IAP?
ha!
Great point actually
Like too much of Western society, we have the biggest and wealthiest companies not even carrying any water at all.
I’ve argued here before that Apple should split out payment processing/support from everything else. Or just limit everything else to game apps and admit they’re the ones subsidizing everyone else on the store.
Not a novel idea. Others do it, Apple is more successful. That Apple is not a hardware company but a "the whole widget" company is why they are more successful than Dell or Microsoft, and why their products suck less.
Well if the Netherlands thing works out as currently proposed, maybe we will see the former across the board. I don’t think it’s necessarily bad like some people think.
Sucks to be in your position I guess, millions and millions of people are just fine and have been just fine before Apple…
********. Apple is free not to do business. Whether this would withstand court challenges and lawsuits and/or loss of revenue is another thing.
But apple is one company that can go up against draconian and socialist regulation.
Sounds good to everyone -- other than Apple
Hmm..
I wonder why they don't want to talk actual numbers re: real costs of running store/providing APIs?
Apple should just block all dating apps from their devices .what normal person can't find a man or woman without an app?
If a bricked phone was the absolute WORST thing that could happen, fine, let ‘er rip. However, those that aren’t tech savvy (and some that are)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...stealing-seniors-including-my-mom/4834923001/
can be conned/swindled/coerced into downloading and installing an app by a malicious actor and they could lose thousands of dollars or more. There’s not even anything indicating that there’s a large number of folks that would even be interested in sideloading to start with. So, it’s effectively opening up all iOS users to a scam that’s currently nonexistent on iOS for practically no market benefit to Apple (as it’s not like people are so concerned about sideloading that they’re avoiding iPhones, especially in the US).
How much do you think the platform that is the bases of your entire business is worth. It provides the tools, infrastructure, marketing, access to willing customers, and handles the customer support for you?
If you make less than a million dollars a year they are essentially investing half of their profit back into your business.
If you are a larger developer on a subscription model and provide a great experience that creates a long term customer, they will give you the same 15% after the first year. So the profit share is 85/15 instead of the standard 70/30.
Nothing is free. Most App Store developers would not exist if Apple didn’t create this model and opportunity. This is a push by big developers that don’t even fully support the platform and make less than 10% of their revenue to break it apart so they can either exploit or eliminate smaller developers so they can take their piece of the market for themselves.
With web apps it’s out of apples’ hands. No fee, no IAP, no approval process etc
The old people I know with Android don’t get scammed because they use their phone like a dumb phone and don’t download stuff. Younger people have they phone borked and buy a new one.
Lol, even with apple own internal numbers less than 3% if fraud and malware is less than 2% of App Store rejections
Yep - all they are really "reviewing" for is "compliance with the mob boss and his racket"
I guess it would be if a small number of apps are subsidizing all the other apps on the store. The thing is when the App Store first launched Steve Jobs said that they didn’t expect it to be a profit center. Clearly that’s changed. If it needs to keep growing to satisfy Wall Street then Apple won’t change their business model unless forced to.
Nope it’s not, they still will have to allow sideloading of different browser engines.
They also gatekeep through the browser.
Because once they figured out how much money they were making from the App Store it no longer was to be a break-even service there to generate iPhone sales. Now it’s considered part of ‘services’ revenues and has to grow to satisfy Wall Street.
Only thing that matters is what they actually on paper