Apple could just make iOS development tools free of charge in the same way Google does with Android Studio and Microsoft do with Windows tools. They have the cash! They could also port the tools to Windows as well.
It’s simple to me. Without apple, where is Spotify going to get subscribers? The web and android? How much would that cost them? If the built a phone that people wanted then apple couldn’t sell their music software in the Spotify App Store without giving a cut. Dave’s killer bread has to give up a cut to sell at Walmart. It’s the same thing. If Dave wants to build a store for just his bread he gives up nothing to anyone.
No one is stopping you from selling source code. But selling a packaged app outside the App Store will be useless since it has to be on the App Store to run on iOS devices.
Yeah, and they conveniently forget their own country's government movements on this subject.
With not paying the $99/year you won’t be able to officially release on iOS App Store nor Mac App Store. Your app won’t be signed either, which means you will probably have a hard time getting anyone to run it. But good luck ??
The $99 a year for becoming an official apple dev is a pittance compared to what it used to cost before the iPhone App Store became a thing. No one should be complaining about that cost.
That’s a class action lawsuit in the making and there would be all kinds of a kerfuffle for Apple PR wise. This is why they are trying to stop this idiocy before it gains too much momentum.
I don‘t like Google to be the „only“ search engine. So what? It is a good search engine and it plays a dominant role. Google was regulated and told that it is forbidden to abuse its dominant role. If it does it has to pay looooots of money.
As someone mentioned in another reply, only US and China has never been called out. There were calls to pull supply chain out of China, but not operations.Microsoft owns Windows, but they wouldn't be able to get away with restricting apps to their own store. There are a similar number of iOS devices in use worldwide as there are Windows devices in use. For any "they aren't a monopoly" arguments: I've described how iOS users are a captive market in another lengthy post, so I'm not going to repeat myself here. At the end of the day, there are well over 1 billion active users in the iOS market, and I view any argument that Apple is somehow entitled to 15- 30% of all transactions in that market for eternity as absurd.
Then explain it to me....Nobody has. I have never seen a direct reason why this is such a big flipping deal if nobody side loads on Android when the option already exists. What amazing great almighty app are we missing that is only available through side loading?
And app I use on an android device is exclusively only available on their website. Its not on the Play Store at all so yes I have.
So its my fault by taking what you say? How am I supposed to read between the lines? You stated that as a fact, and I proved that fact to be false. Why not just admit it was a mistake for you to say that?
I am sorry but....what? People constantly counter all of this saying "nothing will change, you can keep your walled garden and NOTHING WILL CHANGE". YES IT WILL! And you just said so. So people need to stop saying "nothing will change".
Glad that we have come to an agreement that is a winnable situation for the parties that may be to come involved in time
I really don't understand what you mean. It was stated as a fact that it costs $99 a year without even having an app. I even quoted that exact sentence WITHOUT MODIFICATION. I said it was not true, and then I get called that I am splitting hairs?
Thank you for taking the time to apologize. Your apology is accepted and we can move on from this issue at hand
