You also can’t use Apple Pay at Walmart and have to use Walmart pay. Apple should Sue Walmart
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Apple Says 'We Won't Make an Exception' for Epic Games in App Store Dispute
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How do you know? How do you decide which revenue stream recoups cost and which is profit? And why would it matter? Epic recoups cost by licencing unreal. They don't need to sell any V-Bucks.
Distribution is cheap, but have you ever seen the cost to build out a data center? My brother works for Amazon - and the last project was close to $1,250 per square foot on the build out before just starting out running it - thats a lot of 30% cuts of a $.99 IAP - thats close to 4000 IAP per square foot to just break even.
Supposedly you have Android but Epic is claiming that They can’t do so over there aswell
epic scaleis minuscule compared to Apple or Google and yet they deem 30% unjust?
Read the lawsuit and you'll find Epic actually wants to operate an App Store in parallel to Apple and Google where Epic would review apps, set prices, commissions, and rules; essentially a parallel walled garden of Epic design. So, even if Epic wins this, and I don't think they will but that's another line of thought entirely, not much would change as far as cost to the consumer except who would get the 30% commission; Epic would.
So far I have heard of mainly big companies complaining
You own the hardware, and if you can replace the operating system without violating any software license agreement (for example, by modifying the bootloader and therefore creating a derivative work of copyrighted software), have at it. But Apple has no obligation to build in security weaknesses to enable you to do so.
Is because they need to keep their shareholders and investors happy - even when you are not public - when an investor wants more return, you try to find it anywhere you can, and sometimes you find your fees to fight about.
I always believed that amazon was making an offer so good that it changed the guidelines but since Netflix or Disney+ won’t really answer I guess we may never know
Actually - you couldn't on the Ferrari - Ferrari protect their brand quite well and would likely send you a lawsuit preventing you from doing so - its happened before. Often the solution is that they would want you to remove their branding from your car and you would be blacklisted from ever buying another Ferrari from Ferrari.
You can still run software that isn't notarized on the latest version of macOS, just control-click and click open
- Android OS is open source, designed to run on ARM based architecture and x86-64 architectures. Windows operating system(s) are not open source, but can work on many different types of x86 and x64 architecture.
- iOS is not open source and is specifically designed to run on specific hardware (which is also made by Apple).
- If you could buy a Ferrari (even a used older one), you'd more than likely be putting in a rebuilt Ferrari engine in it because their engines are amazing. No one would put some inferior cheaper motor in a Ferrari for the sake of saving money.... you just bought a Ferrari.
To me that is just how the rent is defined. It could be a fixed amount per developer, a fixed amount per sold item, or any other way. To me the % per sold item seems to be the most fair possible to everyone.
Would it be better if it were % sold per item to be in the store, and another % per item to use the in-store payment system? I assume that the end result would be about the same.
It's not free, you paid for them, if you use them or not.
Excuse me, but where do you find a restaurant where wine is marked up only 100%?
The iPhone is just ONE bar. There is a Samsung bar, a Google bar, a One Plus bar, a Microsoft bar, an Oppo bar etc..
There's no way you will not be able to drink!
Epic just want to sell drinks in the bar with richest clientele...
So pay up or go home, has business ever been any different?
Really? Most of my subscriptions on iOS are already outside of the Apple ecosystem... Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Foreflight, Ring. I'm already fully capable of adulting and managing these things
They can sell through their website. Like Netflix does.
There's one problem though. When I signed up to Netflix, that was a conscious decision that my wife and I made together (it's not _that_ expensive, but it's more money than I would want to throw away). But in-app purchases for games are just stupid and they are only made because people don't think straight; it's an impulse buy. A lot of it is exploiting impressionable young kids. If you had to go through a website, lots of the sales wouldn't be made. Many, many parents would thank Apple if all purchases had to be made through Epic's website.
Instead you bought a Tesla and are now paying Tesla 15-30% extra to charge the thing, regardless of who your power provider is.
As someone who enjoys doing art I can tell you that you have got me interested and depending on your business model I know people would like it
Apple is attractive and that’s something people won’t admit
So....30 seconds of IAP per square foot to break even, because at Apple's scale, 4,000 is nothing. And 4000 IAP wouldn't swamp CPUs, I think Apple is able to afford sufficient data center space just fine.
The App Store doesn't distribute 200GB games to millions of customers each though
Would you apply that to everybody? Right now Apple is only applying it to a very specific group of businesses. Companies like Uber, Airbnb, Walmart, Amazon, etc. are all able to sell goods through their apps and entirely avoid the mandatory Apple payment system if they want. I'm curious how much, if anything, Apple gets off the massive amount of Uber revenue that is generated by the Uber app simply because of Apple's arbitrary decision to not apply their in-app payment rules to services.
Do not agree with anything. Storage is cheap, setting up farms of integrated storage that has fail over and consumes the energy of a small nuclear plant is not.
This sort of highligts the problem, it is not as simple as buying a couple of extra harddrives or just having the ability to side-chain apps it all has costs and implications. Take the side-chaining of apps that apple has to sign. The current appstore has a lot of apps, who should pay for the appsigning when Apple gets zero? Who should pay for Xcode updates and the propagation of that to a million plus devices? You are making a hard problem simple beyond belief.