We are talking about In-App purchases, for which Apple does nothing at all. We are not talking about alternative App stores. In the Apple App Store, for App purchases, they can obviously use their own payment system.
You buy an Apple product knowing going into it what the rules are and how it works. I am perfectly happy and satisfied with having a protected and controlled experience with Apple. It makes it simple, safe and straightforward. If I wanted something else, I'd buy something else. Like an Android. Having used both over the years, no thanks. That's choice.
The news story is specifically about Fortnite, and Epic. Sure developers care, but mainly the ones who are established and already made millions off of iOS, and now want a bigger piece of the pie. Going back to specifically Epic they cry about fairness and still charge game developers to put games in their store. They want to shoot the whale (Apple) hoping to get consumer support, when tech savvy consumers choose Apple because of this systems, while everyday users just want their device to work without additional complications. I just hate hypocrites, especially CEOs that are all talk, and stab consumers in the back. At least Apple is telling you from the beginning what you're buying into.
Serious answer: they’re making truckloads of money from iOS hardware purchases.
And conversely where lenders like epic who made millions of dollar be without the iOS App Store. Chicken and egg?
Exactly.
In the eu yes. In the US this is under appeal.
Except in the EU is not a competitors store front, it’s a store front by virtue of regulation.
Epic really isn’t entitled to anything. It’s but for (govt overreach) regulation in the eu that epic can have a store front.
The Epic store for iOS is clearly a (albeit currently small) competitor to Apple’s App Store.
I disagree. This is a giveaway by the eu playing Robin Hood. Competition by govt regulation is not competition.
…taking from the Apple that’s acting like the Sheriff of Nottingham.
That’s voting with your $$$ in action. Buy what suits the consumer the best.
I’ll take that over a bland, soulless corporate bean counter whose greatest ability and achievement are squeezing everyone else (consumers, suppliers, developers) like a lemon.
And yet there is this: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...lds-most-valuable-brand.2457185/post-33907905
Have you played Fortnite? The game is free to play, but it is designed for you to give them money, endlessly.
They couldn't force them to. As Apple could then turn around and get the courts to force every developer to develop for their platform too. It would work both ways.
So, do you believe it’s OK for a developer to leverage Apple’s ecosystem to reach millions of customers with a free app, then handle all in-app-purchases with an external system — to avoid paying Apple for use of their infrastructure to launch, distribute and sustain their app and business?
Given Apple’s market share and monopoly power, yes.
That’s an unserious answer. Any business run that way would go bankrupt. And any CEO that thought that way would be canned before they drove the business to bankruptcy. Hardware and services are separate businesses and should be run that way: Hardware prices recover hardware costs and generate contribution to profitability; and App Store pricing recovers App Store costs and generate contribution to profitability.
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