It would be more like McDonalds renting space to Burger King... Apple is not forcing developers to use the Apple ecosystem, they know the rules and potential price hikes going into it. Game consoles have been this way for decades, Nintendo fighting the hardest since the NES. He really needs to get over it.
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Criticizes Apple Over App Store Price Increases
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Dear devs, if you feel you have it so bad with Apple then:
- Stop writing apps for iOS, it will hurt for a little while but...
- If enough of devs stop then iOS customers will start to complain or leave Apple.
- If enough people complain or leave Apple they will, very quickly, change their ways.
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And guess what that app that made $1 million in Apple's App Store would make without being sold in Apple's App Store? $0
And the developer makes 700k. What’s your point?
Apples and oranges hi ho, hi ho. Tires already regulated and standardized.
Movie theatres take more than 30% for the movies they play, even though they played absolutely no role in the making of the movies. Well week one the theatre might only take 10%, but after that they can take more than 30%. It's not like movie theatres are funding the development of movie camera standards or anything, they just play the movies.
I think Apple's 30% is totally fair, especially considering Apple will take 0% of purchases in apps that sell physical goods like food and clothing.
Because of inflation $1.36 is now worth 99¢ but otherwise yes. Or 99¢ is now worth roughly 72¢.
yeah sure, as if all the apps developers prior to the app store launch were making scraps
Also the “our governments made stupid policies making us dependent on Putin” hike. “our nation tried to replace an economy with a printing press during the pandemic” tax hike. So much blame to go around for such complicated outcomes.
and thats changing too, studios are working with streaming platforms directly now, bypassing threatres, amc was absolutely in the tank even before covid and wallstreetbets happened.
Most of them had no business.
Programs for mobile prior to the App Store were either through terrible carrier stores, or were licensed at high fees (and inevitably pirated) in kludgy ways.
First off, I never said that. So you totally misread it or didn't read it. You said $1 million made in the App Store would give Apple 300k, fact. I said that's better than the $0 they'd make without being in the App Store, also a fact. Neither statement had anything to do with money made in other outlets.
They are welcome to not use the App Store now, nobody is forcing them to. If they want to be in it though, 70% of money made in the App Store is a hell of a lot better than 0% IMO.
again, they weren't making 0 before, where do u even get that number. but ofcourse, nothing you or i say matters, apple is facing regulation challenge on this very issue so we'll see what happens.
Thinking that way about any monopoly is how dictatorships come to be. Yikes
They never lowered the prices when the euro was 1.6 dollars……. Apple really screws over the europeans
Perhaps because the rate's never been that high? It hit 1.59 on July 11th, 2008...the day after the App Store opened.
Clearly Apple killed the Euro!
i read, you weren't concise, 0 percent what, total revenue annual? or just 0 percent from app store. app store or not, the end user wouldn't buy twice, so if they get from app store they wouldn't get it elsewhere. at the end, it doesn't matter, apple's 30% policy is getting challenged by govt's around the world. they already made concessions with apps with less than 1m in annual. at this point you're just pushing moral arguments that ends up no where 😂
All Sweeney has to do is to invent a games hardware platform, and then create an app store for it, and he can then decide how to price things.
As it is, he didn't invent the iPhone, didn't create the Apple App Store and I am quite content the way things are, thank you very much. Apple has made a lot of people very rich through the App Store, but some are just greedy.
As it is, he didn't invent the iPhone, didn't create the Apple App Store and I am quite content the way things are, thank you very much. Apple has made a lot of people very rich through the App Store, but some are just greedy.