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Funny! I was always able to do so! No jailbreak required. Just a cable and a developer account.
You own it, and you can do what you want! It's just that other stores are not allowed today.

I already do that. quit being selfish. it's not about us. it's about apple skimming off the top of already sparse developer revenues. apple's greed needs to be reined in and developers should not be treated like contract workers for apple.
 
Adjusted revenue = revenue from operations minus lost revenue from draconian regulations.

Analyze adjusted revenue.

Pull out of the US aswell?

If other countries introduce similar legislation, alternate app stores could expand beyond the European Union. The United States, for example, is considering legislation that would require Apple to allow sideloading.
 
Pull out of a market of 447 million people. Bigger than the US and Canada combined.
And still, third in importance to Apple, just ahead of Japan and Australia and the rest of Asia Pacific with around 20% of Apple’s total operating profit. Not insignificant, but, as someone else spoke to, the region generated a margin of 32.8% which means Apple spending a dollar in ANY of their other regions in the world will get them a better return. They’re not going to pull out, but they’ll be taking it into account if their profit margin continues to slide.
 
Leave it to a whiny ass MacRumors reporter to cry about this option being available on twitter like it is going to cause IOS to crumble....
People are scammed out of billions of dollars on Windows and that doesn’t affect Microsoft’s bottom line. In the same way, Apple will be fine, iOS will be fine, but their users are going to be heavily targeted the DAY this is available. :)
 
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I already do that. quit being selfish. it's not about us. it's about apple skimming off the top of already sparse developer revenues. apple's greed needs to br reigned it and developers should not be treated like contract workers for apple.
As if developers ever get 100% of the revenue generated by their app. You're just describing a normal thing in loaded terms.

85 percent of apps are free. Some of those get their revenue from ads. The ad companies "skim off the top" of these revenues. Another 13% or so make less than a $1 million per year and pay Apple 15%.

So, no, this is about the little guy fighting for "sparse developer revenues". It's about billion dollar corporations trying to use government regulations to take revenue and cortrol from trillion dollar corporations.
 
So, no, this is about the little guy fighting for "sparse developer revenues". It's about billion dollar corporations trying to use government regulations to take revenue and cortrol from trillion dollar corporations.
Yeah, by and large, small developers are content having a potentially large unwieldy portion of their monthly expenditures be directly related to how much money they bring in. Now, they could only get a similar deal on their mortgage, electric bill, water bill, car payment, etc. :)
 
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So, no, this is about the little guy fighting for "sparse developer revenues". It's about billion dollar corporations trying to use government regulations to take revenue and cortrol from trillion dollar corporations.

you obviously need to do a little research.. your first OS was windows95 or later wasn't it?
 
Finally day i been waiting, if phone is mine then it is mine and end of story. I am even ready to lose warranty, DRM keys and so on to allow sideloading. It could be working this way: With account you can enable permanent sideloading, with own responsibility, disabling iPhone activation. This way you own device truly.
 
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Adjusted revenue = revenue from operations minus lost revenue from draconian regulations.
Having billions of revenue vs. not having them.

Even if they decide to conform to EU rules (with, yes, the development "overhead"), they still are and will be hugely profitable.
 
For apple it may make sense to not continue to do business there
It may, it may not.

If they childishly want to stick it to the Europeans cause they don't like this legislation, it probably makes good sense to drop out. If they want to earn as much money as they can, it won't.
Crystal ball?
Common sense.

Apple, in their last financial reporting year, had $ 35 billion operating income on £ 95 billion net sales in the "Europe" region (not all of that is the EU) and a worldwide gross margin of 72% on "services".

It really doesn't take a crystal ball to tell that they're going to be alright and hugely profitable, come this regulation or not.
 
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I don’t see how either point is relevant, no offense. Nintendo doesn’t go after emulators or their devs, as what they are doing is not illegal — as much as they wish they could. They go after piracy sites and tools, if anything.
I read somewhere (not a fan when others starts a sentence like this because it sounds unfounded) that Manomio took pains with the licensing of their short lived c64 iOS app. I for my part was very careful in getting permission from the current IP owners of the system ROMs.

I’d love to add external loading of program files to my apps. Obviously my personal development builds have this trivial to add this functionality. But I think I understand Apple’s motivation - if they were to open the doors to apps being able to execute external code beyond simple scripts it means that functionality that was not present during the app review process would be added/extended later - kind of like our own personal limited app store within an app. If we were successful in convincing Apple that having external loaded code was innocuous for our specific emulation cases this would set a precedent for other apps and complicate their review process leading to per app basis exceptions. I believe changes to legislation are the only things that would get Apple to change at this point. Personally, I’m not that bothered and the extra effort I have made to reach out to authors of included programs has paid off leading to some interesting contacts and descriptions - more like a human interest project rather than another dry emulator.

Sorry I have gone off on a tangent - bottom line, you want to play Nintendo games on your Apple devices without messy workarounds and Apple’s developer policies are an obstacle unlike other platforms.
 
For apple it may make sense to not continue to do business there. Let the EU citizens use android.

Crystal ball?


Care to give an example of why it would make sense?

You talk about 'draconian regulations' but Apple are more than happy to comply with them in China.




 
You talk about 'draconian regulations' but Apple are more than happy to comply with them in China.
China’s not begging for a cut of Apple’s pie. :) Asking Apple to remove VPN apps and limit Airdrop is widely different from begging for 10% of WORLDWIDE profits in fees. There is literally no other region that derives potential fees from revenues made OUTSIDE the region. That’s right, not even China!
 
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China’s not begging for a cut of Apple’s pie. :) Asking Apple to remove VPN apps and limit Airdrop is widely different from begging for 10% of WORLDWIDE profits in fees. There is literally no other region that derives potential fees from revenues made OUTSIDE the region. That’s right, not even China!

The EU haven't asked Apple for a cut of their profits either. You seem to have invented that.
 
unprecedented potential fine of up to 20% of global profits
Certainly not unprecedented.
Volkswagen was fined for more than 20% of its global profit - by the United States of America.

He's clearly referring to the unprecedented potential fine of up to 20% of global profits
Why only 20% of „profits“ - when they can fine up to 20% of global turnover? 😁
 
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