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Apple Slaps Warnings on Apps Using External Purchases in the EU [Updated]
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Yes, and they ask to install 3rd parties software that's all...
How is that different than my Mac Mini and MacBook where I can both download and pay for apps OUTSIDE of the App Store using Apple's OS? Your logic makes no sense.
A choice to have an open platform where you have full and maximum choices (Android) or a closed platform where the user experience is simplified by having minimal choice is great.
Making iOS like Android reduces choice.
A user should be able to have a platform choice where there's only 1 way to purchase digital goods inside apps.
It's mutually beneficial relationship. Apple benefits from developers just as much as developers benefits from Apple's platform. And you have a choice to not develop for Apple platforms.
Yes, but forget the "think different" company. It doesn't exist anymore. Now it's "squeeze different"...
The Mac has always been an open OS. iOS has always been closed. Apple is allowed to have different rules for different products, especially when one product has 2 billion users and the other has 150 million, making the former a much greater target for bad actors.
If you say "don't buy a$$le phone if you don't like this store" I could say "don't buy an app if you believe the payment to be insecure".
PS do you shop on Amazon?
Sorry consumer or Epic? How can you judge the a$$le payment more secure than somebody else?
Isn't that a contradiction? Free apps still pay the $100.
The 30% commission was decided upon because it was what Apple charged the music industry for iTunes purchases. But none of the music on iTunes was/is free.
The fact they're fighting tooth and nail for this income stream tells us it is not just about operating costs, as they have plenty of income to swallow that elsewhere.
They've just gotten too big and blind to the value of their developers (and I'm not a developer). They could magic away all of their lawsuits in one day by just running the App Store at cost, as Phil Schiller suggested.
Yes thanks Tim Cook for the courage of having a monopolistic 30% Apple Store with a warning logo like you are downloading a virus just to avoid the 30% cut of the richest company in the world. Surely it's all about privacy and courage. There is no greed or abuse of power at all, surely.
We should ask Microsoft and Google to put big fatty warnings whenever we buy anything without giving them 30% on their OS so they can protect us better.
More seriously, people defending those practices or advicing to just buy from a different brand are not pro-consumers or pro-safety whatever BS, they are just clueless.
Good. I want to know if an app uses an external purchase system before I download it.
The 3rd party payment will likely offer Apple Pay as an option anyway making it incredibly secure!
Do you do not ever download apps for your PC or Mac outside an app store?!
What don't those idiots run their mouths about?
Ridiculous. Especially since this this is about money not privacy or security. I like what Gruber wrote:
I want iOS to be more like the MacOS I've enjoyed as an open platform for the last 25 years. Is having OSX, Linux, Windows and others all as open platforms bad for consumer choice?
The message is visible when downloading the Amazon app from the iOS App Store, not when purchasing an item from the app.
Yes if you are downloading the app from the Mac App Store, but not it you are visiting a website or downloading an app from a company website.
Thats a load of poppycock. They are conflating thentruth and using dirty tactics here.
BECAUSE the payment itself and its functioning has very little with Apple’s privacy focused mindset or ideals. Because payments online firstly are secure in the first place. And if you are swindled, you get your money back from the card issuer or your bank. Any payment via any of your cards via Apple Pay will also be required by law to state what you bought, what amount, what time, to whom. Every detail Apple here claims are a danger to your privacy, they are by law required to show everyone involved in the transaction.
This is just scare tactics that works on my aunt.
There ARE reasons why it’s better for some to use Apple Pay, convenience is one. And Apple should be embarrassed for basically lying to their users. They should be better than this. And this sort of stuff is more likely to reduce trust in them.
BECAUSE the payment itself and its functioning has very little with Apple’s privacy focused mindset or ideals. Because payments online firstly are secure in the first place. And if you are swindled, you get your money back from the card issuer or your bank. Any payment via any of your cards via Apple Pay will also be required by law to state what you bought, what amount, what time, to whom. Every detail Apple here claims are a danger to your privacy, they are by law required to show everyone involved in the transaction.
This is just scare tactics that works on my aunt.
There ARE reasons why it’s better for some to use Apple Pay, convenience is one. And Apple should be embarrassed for basically lying to their users. They should be better than this. And this sort of stuff is more likely to reduce trust in them.
Actually Granny Smith is one of the most bitter varieties...
Irrelevant. This alert is visible when downloading from the iOS App Store where the consumer assumption is that Apple handles payment; not when downloading from a 3rd party website where there is no assumption of that. Consumers have the right to know this detail of the App before they download it.
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But Apple’s in-app purchase doesn’t apply to non-digital goods. Is everyone at risk when they order an Uber or do Door Dash on their phone? Are they at risk when they buy a physical book from the Amazon app? It’s ridiculous. Of course Apple’s ‘scare screen’ can’t say if you leave this app to purchase you’re not paying us for use of our IP so they scare people about privacy and security instead.