Sue em and keep suing them that’s the easy part. Winning lawsuits is the tough part.
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Apple Hit With Multibillion-Euro Lawsuit for 'Overcharging' App Store Users
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Told you so. THEY aren't happy no matter what Apple even tries to do.
Give Apple a "roadmap for dummies" saying what they have to do. Until then, go pound sand and you won't see a dime.
Give Apple a "roadmap for dummies" saying what they have to do. Until then, go pound sand and you won't see a dime.
AppStore has been a massive win for consumers and developers.
Prior to AppStore and Play mobile app market didn’t exist. Now it’s tens of billions of dollars annually.
I’ve made lots of purchases on a whim must because it’s so easy.
I love that all my purchases are easy to restore when setting a new device.
I love that I see all my subscriptions in one place.
Parental controls are great - no need for your kids to have credit cards, they can request purchases.
My parents use gift cards, because they don’t want to put their credit card anywhere.
All this thanks to this horrible AppStore tax which forces you to pay 0,99€ instead of 0,89€, assuming developers would transfer lower comission into end user pricing.
Well, sometimes you have to cut back old bushes to let them flourish again.
I guess all of these people, service providers and companies are also being fined to the millions, we just need someone post the news of this happening. I’ll wait.
Not a legal expert, but this case makes no sense.
Essentially, it seems to be arguing that it is unlawful for Apple to earn a 30% commission on its own platform.
But... what about super markets and all other retail stores that also charge a commission, i.e. markup the price?
Should all of those be illegal too?
What law exactly is Apple breaking here?
Essentially, it seems to be arguing that it is unlawful for Apple to earn a 30% commission on its own platform.
But... what about super markets and all other retail stores that also charge a commission, i.e. markup the price?
Should all of those be illegal too?
What law exactly is Apple breaking here?
Uh, why? EUs DMA is sitting around the corner waiting for Apple to come around ....
Good. Then it should be no problem for Apple to end this App Store enforcement and to live with App Store competition. May the best win.
Sorry. You are over reaching. As a developer you can’t advertise such in the App Store. Pretty much like Samsung can’t advertise cheaper prices in the Verizon store. Developers can market to a broad range of customers in any medium they choose. They could even have a system of passwords and payments outside of the App Store and then simply submit the app to the store for downloading. Oh it must have options to fully activate, but if customers are already active in their ecosystem, they could use the products. Like Spotify, virtually no one who already wants to not pay artists and subsidize josh Grogan, will pay anything to apple at all
So the sole argument is that people want to regulate pricing without the statutory authority to do so. Has anyone seen what Airbnb charges? Now there is something to go after!
the difference between Apple and the supermarket chain is that the markup at the supermarket is due to farmers, packers, truckers, warehouses, and supermarkets all DOING SOMETHING that adds cost. Apple forces developers to sell ONLY at their store and puts up a single web page for the product and asks 30% cut. I see a big difference.
Why do these clowns expect Apple to provide services for free? Do they think that storage, utilities and staff to run that storage, app reviewers, editors & staff, and technical support are free?
Seriously, what’s in the water over in Europe?
Seriously, what’s in the water over in Europe?
It is such a shame that Apple didn't develop their own compromise when the chatter started to build, but at least it will serve as a really good example of greed
Nobody talks about free. Let there be App Store competition for iOS and let‘s see how this will affect prices.
The same goes for Apple too. No one is forcing Apple to sell apps, in Netherlands, in EU, in China, and so on. No one is forcing Apple to sell iPhones, period. Apple should suck it up if it wants to sell in these regions. A country comes up with the laws that it thinks is best suited for its people. You want to do business in that country, you comply. No more dithering shenanigans by Apple. Things are getting serious now. They will bring Apple or any other big tech company to heel if they do not willingly comply.
I agree comply or leave. But to comply apple has to know what it is that it has to do, which has been a moving target.
I’m willing to take a hit on my apple stock price , it it means in the short term apple isn’t giving away billions of dollars due to draconian regulation.
That's just a stupid comparison. one NEEDS utilities....water electric, etc.. No one NEEDS any app from any app store.
The Apple-made SDK that it’s maybe 50% of the working code in any app, has created itself? The energy to keep the servers running cost nothing to Apple? The R&D to design new hardware and keep customer’s loyalty is free?
If my daughter was going to die and there were three choices with the best one and guaranteed cure being 2 million a week, yes.
I want Horizon Forbidden West on my PC or get it for less money. No matter where it is available Sony takes a cut and that’s not fair. It’s the game I want to play no others. Why won’t the EU step in and make them sell it at a discount for PC?
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Just h2o without additional Gas from fracking like in the U.S. , we are not fans of lighting taps. ?
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Actually Europe as a whole has been turning right in recent times, maybe with the exception of Germany. There's hasn't been a "left party" in Dutch government for years, the biggest political party by far in The Netherlands, VVD, is clearly on the right side of the spectrum.
This particular case has nothing to do with the Dutch government.
There were always other choices....Android