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Apple Study: App Store Ecosystem Generated $1.3 Trillion Globally in 2024
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Except when consumers bought the app from the Apple App Store and in order to continue using it, they have to install the non App Store version.
If nobody uses them then that’s fair enough. I would have no complaints. At least people have a choice.
Wikipedia is not an authoritative source.in places in usa, gas tax goes to Highway Trust Fund. That in turn funds roads.Highway Trust Fund - Wikipedia
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Not all developers would be able to build their own Application Stores. Then users would not be able to easily find their App Stores. Nor would they have the trust that they would be legitimate either.
Has that happened anywhere? I doubt it ever would. This process is primarily about subscriptions and in-app purchases.
Apple's work is why Apple customers pay more money for apps per capita, earning developers more.
Probably shouldn't try expounding on what the case means then.
Ok, so that would explain the US federal governments way of collecting the fuel taxes, but that also does not account for local taxation in the individual states. Then there is other nations that could do something different. So it comes back to how each locality decides based on how they decide to fund road improvements.
So don’t use them. Simples. Some users will be quite happy to use 3rd party app stores and some will stick with Apple. I have no problem with that. It’s called choice and it’s a wonderful thing.
Mac App Store? Sure. Kaleidoscope left the Mac app store, despite it costing $70+.
It really means nothing to me as it will change nothing in what I do. Which is why it was not interesting.
Only cases even close to that that I'm aware of are where apps had or added functionality on macOS that was forbidden in the App Store. Devs I'm aware of made it as easy as possible to escape the mac app store in those cases.
Of course people can choose what they want to do. If they do not like Apple's system, they can downgrade to other systems.
Thankfully the law disagrees with you and the changes will go through so you can protest all you like but the times they are a changin.
Choosing to leave iPhone's walled garden to an open system is also a wonderful thing.
So should the electricity company charge Apple 30% of their (online) services revenue for powering the data center?
Should they charge you 30% of the revenue of your work-from-home work/business?
They charge 100% of the electricity that I consume from the grid. I use more electricity if I am working from home or have a home business. Besides electricity is a public utility and the App Store is not a public utility. When you agree to sell an application in the App Store, you agree to the terms of service. If you disagree, then you do not use the App Store. It is that simple.
Exactly. 👍
And I’d agree that’s a fair system: you pay for what you consume.
But when a third-party developer like Epic sells a virtual item using their own website and payment processor, they consume nothing provided by Apple.
So if there’s a monopoly or duopoly on electrical power in t your area and they changed their pricing to “commission of your revenue”, you simply agree, saying “fair enough”?
Governments, regulators and courts of law should - and do - impose restrictions on dominant firms’ terms of service. On what they’re allowed to demand in their terms of service and what they can’t.
To ensure a fair allocation of resources, costs and competitive markets.
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Not true, Apple must digitally sign the application in order for the application to install in iOS.
There are monopolies where electricity is provided by a single vendor. I have known no utility that would change rates based on commissions. Regulations are always a cost of doing business and should be as simple as necessary, not thousands of pages of garbage. Governments are never effective in determining what is correct and true.
They do that when admitting the app to the App Store.
Not when I purchase Fortnite items from/through Epic’s app.
Nothing gets signed by Apple when I purchase Fortnite items from Epic’s store (without using Apple’s IAP).