That's because consumers didn't like what Microsoft or Amazon were offering. Kind of like how Palm, Nokia and Blackberry fell by the wayside once iOS and Android were established.
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Apple Reinstates Epic Games EU Developer Account, Paving the Way for Alternative App Store
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The EU isn’t there to create smartphones. They’re there to establish and regulate their market.
its literally in the Digital Markets Act itself.. stating that gatekeeper shall offer interobility and access to both hardware and software to competitors free of charge.
What do you think that means?
Its only matter of time before EU Comission reviews all the compliance changes each gatekeeper submitted prior to 6th of March and starts launching investigations or straight up forcing gatekeepers to change their terms and services that are not complying with the DMA.
I've already read it. That's why I'm saying you're just making it up.
Devil's advocate...Did you have this same attitude when people fought the mandates during COVID? Plenty of people felt like those were unjust rules. Or are the only "unjust rules" the ones YOU, personally, don't like?
Do you own the building by any chance? Because you own your iDevice and that makes a big difference
Who wants their crummy game anyway ? Real gamers play FPS Quake (whatever version). That is the way forward.
I think what happened is that Phil Schiller had a conversation with the guys from legal. They told him how much his stunt would cost, and then had to backtrack, haha.
This is where a lot of the confusion comes from. America generally considers monopolistic behavior illegal if that behavior hurts consumers (almost always in the form of higher prices), but if prices aren't being impacted, it doesn't matter. The EU cares more about monopolies that hinder competition, consumer welfare be damned, because, in theory, competition leads to more innovation. Ben Thompson has a good article about this from a few years ago when Google got hit with the EU hammer.
Oh, now I get it...you're just rehashing the same mistaken interpretation of the DMA that I've seen in previous threads. The "free of charge" part only applies to any of the new forms of system/functional access that the DMA requires. App Stores and the like aren't part of that. They're not saying Apple can't charge for use of their IP.
This in and of itself is ridiculous, but I’m not surprised by EU. Politicians aren’t the best and brightest.
the lawyers will figure out what it means ... Until then, you have an opinion but not facts. Simple as that.
I read this as "Epic Games might have to be better than Epic Games are, in order to succeed."
This may not have been your intended meaning, but I think it's nonetheless a true statement!
Because you don't need to. You can setup your booth right next to Target and everyone will have access to it. Access to iOS users, on the other hand, is gated by Apple.
That's for sure. What it defintely DOES showcase though...is the attitude of entitlement that Europeans seem to have. They want everything...for nothing.
Only by virtue of the fact that Apple has chosen to essentially make the entire town part of their “store.” If Apple hadn’t forced alternate app stores to go through the App Store and instead allowed them to sideload, it would be no different than Apple not deserving a cut just because I purchased something on Safari on my iPhone. Apple acts like they’re the mob and if you want to do business in this town then you owe them a cut. And if you disagree, well, “we have ways to take care of that…”
And what about the fact that the Core Technology Fee will hinder and disolussion any rival from developing/launching their app store, i would say there are at least 2 or more sections about fair competition?
Anyway this year will be fun and i will enjoy all changes Apple made and continues to be forced to make in my country.
let them have their fun here today
Reality is, laws are somewhat high level and somewhat vague, Apple is in the process of getting clarity on some aspects, that will go through the courts and take years ...
I’m from one of those countries and I have tell you some people are really full off it back there. I’m quite sick of it. Why can’t we just be rational.
A gentle reminder that Apples iOS market share is 23% vs 74% of Android/Google.
To call Apple a monopoly and a gatekeeper is just hilarious.
Apple is almost a niche market.
To call Apple a monopoly and a gatekeeper is just hilarious.
Apple is almost a niche market.
Your looking at it from the wrong perspective, Apple is the mall in this case. You are the store.
I highly doubt DMA violations will take years, it will be matter of months with these high fines, and most gatekeepers found in violation in the slightest will JUMP head first to change any part that is not in compliance and not get fined.let them have their fun here today
Reality is, laws are somewhat high level and somewhat vague, Apple is in the process of getting clarity on some aspects, that will go through the courts and take years ...
We saw that mere notion of EU launching investigation in Apple killing Web Apps made them reconsider that decision, same thing with banning Epic, it will be the same for anything else EU deems as wrong.
How has that been established as a fact by anyone? You're just making stuff up. The three main goals of the DMA as described by the EU are
- interoperability and nondiscrimination
- data portability and access
- transparency and profiling requirements
Note how there's nothing in there about forcing gatekeepers to provide everything free of charge.
Once you build a platform big enough and vital enough to society that access to that platform is fairly vital to success then you start to enter the realm of regulatory scrutiny. If Apple wanted to be a sub 10% marketshare platform where being on it or off it didn't matter much then you might have a point about not being regulated.
As I, and others have pointed out:
- Apple can charge a platform fee for SDK access
- Apple cannot reasonably expect a share of all transactions that occur on their platform
Conflating these two is why Apple's position is so incoherent.