I’m returning my pair...I just couldn’t deal with the “hockey puck” I can’t really take them everywhere because it’s so bulky...but they do sound amazing. Ill stick with my Bose QuietControl 30 and my AirPods.
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Apple Says App Store 'Welcomes Competition' Following Criticism From Spotify and Others
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That would be a nice option as well; Apple provides API's to include an index next to a list
Spotify moans about Apple taking a cut of their fees, meanwhile Spotify takes a cut of artist's royalties.
If the platform is eventually opened up to Developer ID signed apps, nobody forces you to download them. Continue to use the App Store for the reasons you stated.
But guess what? 30% isn't measly. It's a lot. And a large amount of, not just a few, app developers are saying this.
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"Apple welcomes competition"
I would too if I got a 30% cut off everything my "competition" sold through my distribution monopoly.
I would too if I got a 30% cut off everything my "competition" sold through my distribution monopoly.
Please feel free to set up and maintain an end to end worldwide distribution model in over 100 languages and 100 countries, for both hardware and software - then we can talk about your 30%
Please. In the old days of packaged software sold in stores the developer would be lucky to get 30%. The other 70% went to retail markup at the store, the distributor and publisher of your software.
You're focusing too much on searching for comparisons and overlooking the overall antitrust violation.
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/antitrust-laws
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Here are the music streaming services that are competing at the appstore, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Music, Tidal, Pandora and I probably missed a couple more. Spotify just want a free ride if they can get away from it I guess it good for them but I do believe Apple should give discount to services as that has a at least 5 or 10 million paying subscribers. But it's up to Apple though and they don't like giving discount.
That's exactly what developers want. If you grossed 3 million in sales a year, Apple is taking almost a million of that. Is it that hard to understand that cut could be invested back into said distribution model? Software was sold over the internet for a long time before the App Store was around, believe it or not. I'd love to hear your response.
With no sense of irony Apple publishes a defense of having an unfair competitive advantage on their website to be seen by who knows how many people, maybe billions.
They do give a discount. The 30% drops to 15% after the first year of a subscription.
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My response is - you've just sided with Apple there.
Too bad Apple allows countless Apps that compete directly with their own. Like Google Maps, Waze and Here that compete with Apple Maps. Evernote and others that compete with Notes/Reminders. Office suites that compete with Pages/Numbers/Keynote. Music recording Apps that compete with Garageband. Carrot and others that compete with Weather.
Many are 100% free to download, which means Apple makes literally ZERO on these Apps, and actually loses money because they have to pay for the bandwidth of who knows how many petabytes of data to support these Apps.
Here's a hint. It wouldn't even come close to taking that kind of money to run a worldwide distribution network. As mentioned software has been sold over the internet, across the world, for a lot longer that the App Store has been around.
Go check out the Mac App Store and see how it works out when Apple doesn't have the app sales/delivery monopoly. Once excited developers have left it or avoided it like the plague, and are selling outside of Apple's store just fine.
If they really welcome competition, they will allow other app stores onto iOS for users and developers to decide what to use or what is safe.
They aren't welcoming competition, they are doing PR because the negative publicity and looming lawsuits must be worrying them.
The problem is that Apple both (1) owns the platform for third-parties to distribute their apps and (2) competes with those third-parties on that same platform.
Either one alone isn't a problem at all. But doing both simultaneously is inherently rife with conflict and thus anti-competitive.
Either one alone isn't a problem at all. But doing both simultaneously is inherently rife with conflict and thus anti-competitive.
Am I right in saying, with Spotify, if you set up the subscription within the app, apple takes 30%/10% or whatever.
But,
If you login into spotify.com, use a web browser on a desktop computer, set up the subscription there, they don't.
You then just log into spotify on your apple device, and it's all good, Apple doesn't take the percentage, as the subscription is not through the app store.
But,
If you login into spotify.com, use a web browser on a desktop computer, set up the subscription there, they don't.
You then just log into spotify on your apple device, and it's all good, Apple doesn't take the percentage, as the subscription is not through the app store.
If they welcomed competition, why don't they allow users to change their default apps then? I guess a smooth user experience is less important than keeping their own apps entrenched.
That was about price fixing " in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act." Not really the same thing here.
They are a company not a charity. Personally I think the fact the developers get to keep 70% of the revenue is brilliant and they should be grateful to piggyback Apple's infrastructure for such a small fee.
Yes, but to further complicate matters, the developer can't send the user to the site within the app to subscribe. And the developer can't distribute the app directly to the users without going through Apple's walled garden, despite Apple having the technology (Developer ID) to allow this while retaining safety on their platform.