Apple Shares Praise From Developers Happy With 15% App Store Fee Cut

[Unregistered 4U]

Then we’re at an impasse. I don’t expect anyone—individual or corporation—to follow rules/laws that aren’t inherently fair.

Your impasse is not with me, then, it’s with reality. There is an ‘entire fairness doctrine’ but it’s so narrowly defined it doesn’t apply in the case of the App Store. If, at any point after signing an agreement, either party could claim WAIT, IT WASN’T FAIR, SO I’M NO LONGER BOUND BY IT, all meaningful business would grind to a halt.

(I also disagree with your assessment that “well behaved companies follow them” ...because many of the companies that appear well behaved aren’t being asked to follow the same rules, eg Netflix.)

There were 20 million registered Apple developers as of a few years ago and that number has very likely risen. The developers making noise don’t even number in the hundreds of thousands. At last count the number of companies so aggrieved that they would actively take a stand on it ONLY numbers 440 as the members of “Coalition for App Fairness”. So, it appears that the VAST majority of developers have no problem following the letter and the spirit of their agreement with Apple.

 

[EricNau]

Your impasse is not with me, then, it’s with reality. There is an ‘entire fairness doctrine’ but it’s so narrowly defined it doesn’t apply in the case of the App Store. If, at any point after signing an agreement, either party could claim WAIT, IT WASN’T FAIR, SO I’M NO LONGER BOUND BY IT, all meaningful business would grind to a halt.

There were 20 million registered Apple developers as of a few years ago and that number has very likely risen. The developers making noise don’t even number in the hundreds of thousands. At last count the number of companies so aggrieved that they would actively take a stand on it ONLY numbers 440 as the members of “Coalition for App Fairness”. So, it appears that the VAST majority of developers have no problem following the letter and the spirit of their agreement with Apple.

We mustn’t confuse the way things are with the way things ought to be.

You’re ignoring the VAST imbalance of power that exists between Apple <> developers. One that already has regulators ready to step-in.

And it’s absurd to think that this is a numbers game. Frankly, it doesn’t matter if the majority of developers are happy or not: it matters which developers are happy. Besides, it’s also wrong to assume that developers are content simply because they haven’t spoken out.

 

[itsmeaustend]

Anyone one else feel like Apple did this just to rub it in Epic's face?

Good.

 

[itsmeaustend]

We mustn’t confuse the way things are with the way things ought to be.

You’re ignoring the VAST imbalance of power that exists between Apple <> developers. One that already has regulators ready to step-in.

And it’s absurd to think that this is a numbers game. Frankly, it doesn’t matter if the majority of developers are happy or not: it matters which developers are happy. Besides, it’s also wrong to assume that developers are content simply because they haven’t spoken out.

As a dev the only thing I have an issue with is the $100 a year fee just to have access to the tools required, on top of the 30% fee. Pick one, not both. I’m not licensing a game console here come on.