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Apple Hit With Multibillion-Euro Lawsuit for 'Overcharging' App Store Users
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Can these people just go buy an Android or something else and leave us alone? There is a reason to choose the well managed ecosystem Apple has established and Apple should be able to profit from it. WTH.
Wake up from your Apple fanboy dream world. EU is a bigger market than the US.
Not all apps are games.
The point is that the claim that people don’t do something unless they’re happy about it is patent nonsense.
I remember paying $1500 to join the developer program and another $1500 to buy the compiler (MPW Pascal) with documentation in a 3-ring binder. I agree that the people calling for this have not thought it through.
This is getting out of hand at this point. If I go to a bakery and the donuts are $10 each, I can pay or not pay. If the store wants a 30% commission on sales of my products, I can choose not to sell there.
I would agree with this if the apps were critical to life like a public utility. They aren't. There's other products and services to choose from at a range of prices from very cheap all the way up to several thousand dollars. Online marketplaces, mobile computers and devices, etc. are out there in droves.
There's alternatives to using the app store literally on Apple devices.. create a web app, create a companion app that people sign up for on your website and make the app free. Go to Android. Make desktop apps. Etc.
I would agree with this if the apps were critical to life like a public utility. They aren't. There's other products and services to choose from at a range of prices from very cheap all the way up to several thousand dollars. Online marketplaces, mobile computers and devices, etc. are out there in droves.
There's alternatives to using the app store literally on Apple devices.. create a web app, create a companion app that people sign up for on your website and make the app free. Go to Android. Make desktop apps. Etc.
Can't deny that social democrats in Europe as a whole have been losing ground. And don't appreciate the patronizing tone, thanks.
You forgot something: „I can choose not to sell there… AND SELL MY PRODUCTS In ANOTHER STORE“. And that is not possible for iOS developers at the moment.
But fortunately the EU Digital Markets Act will force Apple to open up iOS to other App Stores and to sideloading, so that real competition will be possible on iOS.
Ridiculous comparison.
Try living with no utilities in apartment or house, then try living without purchased apps from an app store.
Which one has a greater effect.
Its obivious you didn't think that one through before posting.
They have been losing ground by overtaking the most important country of the EU, Germany?
That’s very different than buying a grand computer in your hand and paying for tinder extra every month for your “dates” lol.
Bad analogy is bad. I don’t need to buy apps to use my phone. I need to buy gas to use my car.
Personally I am more concerned by development restrictions imposed on developers than the price added. Though I must admit I'd rather put a $10 app in the app store than a $15. I like to offer value for money, and the "Apple tax" is a bit exaggerated. Nevertheless, I'd be willing to be charged 50% if I the complicating and damaging code fences were lifted. Apple makes it easy to develop useless (overpriced) apps, but hard to create complex apps.
TO continue with this not fully applicable analogy of a donut shop, you COULD sell your donuts in the ANdroid donut shop next door OR reach the Apple donut store customers by selling your donuts in a pop-up shop right outside the shop doors (webapp) with no sales commision to either platform donut shop.
no, its a loose.
when you go shopping for items in shops you are paying way more than 30% margin.
You could not go into your local supermarket and pay les for the services provided.
developers are getting a world wide audience and users are getting a safe and vetted app.
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The Information Age is over.
Welcome to the Disinformation Age: Where the availability of actual information, logic, reason, facts, and science are all replaced by cultish, emotional denial of all of the above on an unprecedented scale...
Welcome to the Disinformation Age: Where the availability of actual information, logic, reason, facts, and science are all replaced by cultish, emotional denial of all of the above on an unprecedented scale...
But iOS developers can develop for Android and iOS users can choose to buy an Android device. No one is forced to use and stay with Apple's devices. If you don't like the fact that there's only one source for apps on an iOS device, then you should probably choose a different platform. It's really that simple.
Real competition on iOS? That entire market only exists because of Apple and Apple alone. Any "competition" there is on iOS is because Apple allowed it. They created the OS, they created the developer tools, they created the hardware. This market didn't grow because of open competition, it only grew because Apple developed and created devices that people wanted to buy.
Forcing Apple to completely change their business model is not how you fix the lack of choices in the market. In fact, you're actually taking away a choice - for millions of people who prefer how Apple runs their platform and how their devices work.
Instead of wasting all this time trying to destroy what others have built, maybe the EU should just create their own devices? It seems what they want for their consumers is to buy completely blank devices and then search for and install all the features they need and want for themselves.