Everyone is treated fairly. If you make money from our efforts you pay. If you don’t then you don’t. It’s that simple. There are hundreds of millions of free apps that are supported by those that make money. Those will likely disappeared completely if bums are allowed to get a free ride. Apple will change to a pay upfront model to cover services that will kill everything. If Apple’s cut was unreasonable there wouldn’t be so many success stories like Epic and Spotify. Now they want to get greedy. I promise it will get uglyIt's amazing how I got attacked on here for stating the same thing, equality is about treating every developer fair. Apple is know to abuse this power, hopefully it brings better change to the App Store.
Not with republicans in power, it won’t.Nothing was done by Congress when Facebook screwed with the 2016 election. I'm sure no real action will be taken here either.
Visit Youtube and look up "Steve Jobs introduces the App Store". He says it numerous time, YOU decide the price, we take 30% and do all the heavy lifting. So it Fortnight wants to make $99 on kids around the world, charge $130 and shut the **** up.
Of course not. If it weren’t for it being an election year they wouldn’t have said anything.It is so disturbing the Congressman doesn’t even state what he meant by deeply disturbing.
$130 - 30% = $91 (not $99)Visit Youtube and look up "Steve Jobs introduces the App Store". He says it numerous time, YOU decide the price, we take 30% and do all the heavy lifting. So it Fortnight wants to make $99 on kids around the world, charge $130 and shut the **** up.
They invented the App Store. They can do as they please. It’s their platform.It's amazing how I got attacked on here for stating the same thing, equality is about treating every developer fair. Apple is know to abuse this power, hopefully it brings better change to the App Store.
It didn't hurt when they took care of Microsoft in the 90s...
Like IBM in their lifetime they have acquired 1000s of small businesses.It's more about companies that grown so big they prevent smaller companies from prospering. They just keep buying other companies. Small companies are the backbone of our industry and larger companies prevent them ever being really successful and be able to compete.
I think *nix kicked it's nuts in the server market as well.It didn't help either.
Probably actually hurt. What actually solved the problem was competition from Apple in the 2000s.![]()
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Since you are so well researched. Give me examples where Apple has hurts companies like MS did to Lotus 123, WordPerfect and the forcing OEMs to bundle Windows. That last one is so bad Dell still quakes when someone orders a laptop with Redhat.Anyone who has spent time reading into these issues even on a surface level will understand that yes, what these companies are doing, Apple included, is getting a bit out of hand.
But I don’t expect anyone here to realize that. Because you people can’t do research of your own or even think critically for a second. Yes it’s Apple’s platform but it doesn’t mean what they’re doing is right.
You are all so quick to bash literally every other single tech company, but can’t criticize Apple on one thing. Apple is starting to repeat the same exact mistake Microsoft made in the 90s and I’m sure you’ll all gladly **** all over them because it’s Microsoft. But apple doing the same exact thing? Nah, ya’ll dig extra hard and do the craziest backflips to defend them.
It’s a company. You can enjoy and use their products and criticize things you have issues with at the same time.
Permit third party app stores and refine the IAP requirements.
Imagine if Walmart had the same rules that Apple does. When you buy an iPhone from Walmart, every single iOS App purchased on it had a 30% fee that went to Walmart. That'd be insane.
At the same time though, Walmart isn't full of free products from companies hoping to make money off of IAP later. I'm not sure what the right balance to strike is, but a properly functioning free market can figure that out for us. Permit third party app stores and see what rules end up emerging at each of them.
I wonder if Apple will be permitted to keep the iOS App Store. They were the immoral idiots who didn't properly regulate themselves though, so they get what they deserve when the government comes and breaks them up. The government may determine that only third party app stores are allowed to exist from now on, just like movie studios lost the ability to own movie theaters.
Apple engaging in anti-competitive behavior. Who here is surprised?
The simplest solution is to tax monopolies. If the government feels the system makes too much money in too fewer hands then force them to pay more tax.
Any subscription you get at a walmart store they get an initial fee plus a reoccuring fee. If you sign up for a Walmart credit card same thing. They don't operate a bank and manage the card, they get money for each sign up.Permit third party app stores and refine the IAP requirements.
Imagine if Walmart had the same rules that Apple does. When you buy an iPhone from Walmart, every single iOS App purchased on it had a 30% fee that went to Walmart. That'd be insane.
At the same time though, Walmart isn't full of free products from companies hoping to make money off of IAP later. I'm not sure what the right balance to strike is, but a properly functioning free market can figure that out for us. Permit third party app stores and see what rules end up emerging at each of them.
I wonder if Apple will be permitted to keep the iOS App Store. They were the immoral idiots who didn't properly regulate themselves though, so they get what they deserve when the government comes and breaks them up. The government may determine that only third party app stores are allowed to exist from now on, just like movie studios lost the ability to own movie theaters.
Permit third party app stores and refine the IAP requirements.