I have no idea about the "dying" part, but the first part I agree with completely
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I have no idea about the "dying" part, but the first part I agree with completely
So we should be subjugated by big government instead? Or is that only when they make a decision you agree with? How far down that rabbit hole are you willing to go? I'm willing to bet that would ruin the world a lot worse than Apple not allowing you to install "whatever you want".
Your first analogy/question was decent, but then you ruined it with that second one.
That’s a good point. The new mint colour is really nice. Tim Cook has justified his salary with that colour alone.
Government is something representing the people and elected by the people
MegaCorps are an out of control beast
This post is an example of being so engulfed in your own narrative that you are willing to ignore reality. Apple didn't publicize any of this until it was over. This obviously could have been resolved behind closed doors if Sweeney didn't "pull a PR stunt."
I think we don't want either to get too big? Limited government and controlled capitalism, or something.
I dont think i said anything about whether it is working for them financially or not, i said the percentage price is fair in my opinion as a developer.
They are not doing that pricing structure to make big bank but to try and sway users away from Microsoft/Steam, i dont play games nor did i follow the US court case as it does nothing for me in the EU.
If Apple was not as greedy and charged small businesses 10% and larger ones 20% there would be 90% less people complaining and asking their local govs to do something about it.
I wont pretend that im affected as a developer regarding Apple/Google App Stores as i develop Web Apps and only have 3-5% cost for the payment provider depending on which one client chooses for their Web App.
Web is much simpler... anyone can publish whatever they want, with whatever software technology and with whatever design they chose, but these days people are so dependent on their phones that if you are a big business its hard being only web based..
I knew you'd come around
I'm thinking maybe even a pay raise?
Surely nickel and diming customers to death and doing massive continual stock buybacks ... along with some watch bands here and there.. is worth 100 Mil + / year?
Because the headline "Apple and Epic come to an agreement that allows Epic to return the iPhone" isn't going to get many clicks.
A week or so. I'm looking forward to that one.
So you acknowledge that's it's a technical issue then, unlike Apple's dictating of who can sell what to iPhone users and how much of a cut they'll take for the privilege. Fantastic, I'm glad we could agree those are two very different scenarios.
I'm wondering what all these people are going to do/say when the EU mandates they must have a backdoor to all encryption.
If your take is true we wouldn’t have had 15yrs of the App Store! It’s been an unmitigated success and paid out billions to developers and started thousands of devs shops etc. if they were all so impeded by this 30% (15% I think it’s is now right?) then no one would have survived.
The reality is we are here because the big boys (epic et al) went freemium and destroyed the concept of normal devs making a decent margin from their sales. It’s literally called “a race to the bottom”. Where the big boys in a market undercut the normal pricing because they use their profits from elsewhere and subsidise their business activity.
Freemium gaming forced everyone into giving away apps for free and forcing games to be divided in a way where the money was made outside of the App Store but used the AppStore to gain the customer. Which is why Apple put the anti steering thing in the first place to prevent companies gaming the system.
Apples policies literally created the indie game dev scene as a viable entity. Big game companies destroyed it. And now people blame Apple. Everyone forgets how we got to where we are.
If Apple makes a decision that is largely disliked, people stop buying it. Nobody is forced to buy an iPhone.
Probably say no to that and yes to the other thing.
Should we be subjugated by big government? No. However, I'm certainly willing to draw the line somewhere other than "allow corporations to operate with impunity."
Im fairly sure that these days App Stores whether from Apple or Google are GeoBased, so if a developer publishes their app for only US market, i from EU wont be able to find it in the app store or i will but it will say the app is not yet available in your location.
DMA is only interested for EU userbase, so if you have 2 companies like Epic has where 1 operates in the US and rest of the world and one operates only in EU then obviously Epic's main account is still banned and wont be listed for World wide users who are outside the EU.
Based on that i assume that companies will either have to be based out of EU or open another branch that is based in the EU to benefit from the new changes while respecting old apple terms and conditions for every other region they operate in.
There are many things we dont know for certain as no competitor released a rival app store yet, but few are developing.
I just have to say, it is really refreshing to see so much of the sentiment turning against Apple with their continual actions of disregard for rules.
This is a company showing an out of control level of brazenness and they really must be reined in.
Love, like or dislike Apple - it's not healthy to have a corporation with this much power and such disregard for rules and regulations, let alone simply the actual interest of "choice" for their customers and developers.
This is a company showing an out of control level of brazenness and they really must be reined in.
Love, like or dislike Apple - it's not healthy to have a corporation with this much power and such disregard for rules and regulations, let alone simply the actual interest of "choice" for their customers and developers.
Do you have any examples of capitalism amassing too much power over a large number of a country's people and/or businesses in history?
Like this?
CIA Secretly Owned Global Encryption Provider, Built Backdoors, Spied On 100+ Foreign Governments: Report
Global encryption provider used for decades by hundreds of governments was owned by the CIA, according to a new investigation.
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Absolutely... people tend to forget that Apple does all kinds of crap for Chinese gov whenever they order them to give info about chinese users and other things because China is a huge ass market that apple cant afford to get banned from, especially when they manufacture lots if not most of their products there..
People who are pro DMA are likely going to also have very strong views about encryption. I would say there is a big overlap in this venn diagram.
But seriously, do you think everyone who is for this law is mindlessly cheering for everything that comes out of Brussels? We have opinions based on facts and believes, like everyone else.
Stop, they didn't even get that far. Most likely Tim S apologized and promised he would behave.
