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Apple's In-App Purchase Rules Are Anti-Competitive, Rules Dutch Antitrust Watchdog
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The only reason browsers are allowed to exist on the AppStore is because they existed before the AppStore. Apple cannot get away with forcing everything to be an App and take 30%. But YOU BET THEY WOULD LOVE IT!
What if Apple allow 3rd party payments methods but charges those third party payment methods to be listed in their stores? When you go to starbucks somewhere in the world, they are not forced to accept American Express as a payment method. Will Apple be forced to allow ALL payment channels in the world in their app store? PayPal, AE, MasterCard, Visa, JCB, Baidu, AliPay...etc etc...?
More like allow other web engines like blink and gecko from chromium and firefox instead of forcing each one to be Safari in a dress
but Apple makes Google the default search engine?!
More like allow other web engines like blink and gecko from chromium and firefox instead of forcing each one to be Safari in a dress
but Apple makes Google the default search engine?!
Hell, follow the logic to its conclusion. Why shouldn't everyone who makes a digital purchase possible get a 30% cut? ISPs should be charging 30% for transactions their customers make. They invested in all the wire, fiber, and 5G technology that allow Apple and their users to interact.
It's a good point.
I think maybe the HVAC company should take a cut also as their equipment is providing heat to the room where I am making the online purchase. Same for the utility company...
Do any rich people around me own the rights to "the air" also?
Maybe they need a cut?
Hey, without electricity your computer cannot work to buy on Amazon. So the utility company needs its fair share of everything you buy online. Same for the ISP, without them your packets will not even reach Amazon.
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You're right!
I should just give them all access to my bank account actually.
By the time everyone gets their cut for "doing nothing", there is no money left anyhow..
I wouldn’t be able to respond better to this absurd statement than the Judge in Epic v Apple:
“As described, the commission rate driving the excessive margins has not been justified. Cross- reference to a historic gamble made over a decade ago is insufficient. Nor can Apple hide behind its self-created web of interlocking rules, regulations, and generic intellectual property claims; or the lack of transparency among various businesses to feign innocence.”
Blah blah blah.
Unfortunately there's a perception that "digital doesn't cost anything". Take Google Search as one example. Does Google provide this excellent search engine to the world for free? No way! They make billions from their various ad placement services, paid services and strategic contracts. Otherwise, they'd publish the Google Search algorithm as open-source for the world to peruse and contribute. It's not charity.
Now, do developers expect Apple to host and distribute their apps for free? By bypassing Apple's payment system, Apple stops being compensated for his very important aspect of the app ecosystem.
So now developers start using a third-party system and Apple gets $0.00 from each purchase.
I bet your bottom dollar, developers will need to pay something, in some form. Apple won't just give them everything for free.
So the only option is to bend over and cough ? Got it.
Didn't all modern web infrastructure get built with public funding in the 70-80s and privatized in the 90s ?
Good thing they already pay Apple the developer fees to be on the AppStore and users pay for iOS when they buy an iPhone for $1000
Apple is already compensated, they just want MORE. Its like my ISP wanting a cut out of my Amazon purchase as it was done through them. And Windows wanting a cut out of my Steam purchase because Steam runs on top of Windows.
Cheap asses may get their way but not without serious consequences. The cost of doing premium business isn’t cheap.
I seem to recall the 30% being universally praised when the App Store was introduced in 2008.
It was apparently a much lower fee than various marketplaces and distributors charged before.
Developers almost never got to keep 70% of the sticker price in the old days.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The world has changed a fair bit since 2008, wouldn't you say?
(ESPECIALLY in technology...)
They tried to justify it in the Epic v Apple case. The Judge didn’t buy any of it:
“As described, the commission rate driving the excessive margins has not been justified. Cross- reference to a historic gamble made over a decade ago is insufficient. Nor can Apple hide behind its self-created web of interlocking rules, regulations, and generic intellectual property claims; or the lack of transparency among various businesses to feign innocence.”
Most software used to be proprietary stand alone applications. You paid for the anti-piracy and infrastructure.
Nowadays most stuff is a browser to access a service. You pay for what, hosting a few lines of UX software ?
Not to mention that the per user/per service revenue has risen dramatically.
Nowadays most stuff is a browser to access a service. You pay for what, hosting a few lines of UX software ?
Not to mention that the per user/per service revenue has risen dramatically.
Following Apples abusive 30% logic: Couples made by dating platforms available on iOS should share 30% of their GF/BF with Apple employee’s, and 30% of their children will belong to Apple, too. Apple have the right to freely brainwash these kids 7.2hs per day with Apple ads.
Do you think Target can only get paid once? If Apple can get paid more than once, so can Target.