What if that walled community only allowed certain restaurants that paid the development company 30% to deliver food to you and didn't allow the restaurant to tell you that you can come and pick up the food yourself if you wanted?
And how times have changed.
That doesn't address the outlandish claims made (also known as hyperbole). If OP would have stopped with iphone users have higher income than android users that is one thing.
What I really dont understand is why are you so anti Apple now? Apple haven't all of a sudden changed its been this way for years? You have said before you want other app stores and to side load and you seem very passionate about it which is cool, but why was that passion not enough to stop you spending $1200 on an iPhone less than a year ago? Nothing has changed this year
You mean like all the trouble of their market cap going over 2 trillion due to a higher multiple granted to their services?I wasn’t implying all the useful services they offer are a bad thing, just over emphasizing services lately over computer centric products is injecting all this trouble for them.
But apples cost to dispute 10 years ago isn't radically cheaper today, apple cost to run the store hasn't dropped by half or more so why should up the % fee passed on to developers. It sounds like when Apple gave developers 70% instead of the 30% they was traditionally getting apple did a great thing for the developer community, but now developers are used to getting 70% they now want more and think apple should drop their share?
That only supports Epic position if their position is removing the benefits the App Store provides to the consumer
Thats why its a walled garden, if they let anyone in it would be the Wild West not a walled garden
Thats not what Epic wants they want their App on their store. They dont want it on both stores. Originally on android they didn't offer their App on the google store they only offered their app via side loading, there was no choice. This didn't work so now they want there own store. People think they are getting choice but they aint, it will be each app on one store and the price will be the same to the consumer, it will just mean epic get to keep all the money. Look at the emails from Tim Sweeny to apple demanding the right to have an epic store with full access to the iOS features and user data. His plan offered no benefit to consumers
Haha yeah I did notice that. And it is also using Unreal Engine, too. It's Tencent all the way down.
Right, that’s exactly what Epic is asking Apple to do!
But they still have to pay 30% license fee, don’t they?
Random apps tracking my location and violating my privacy however else they might feel like it is not any kind of extra functionality that I want on my iPhone, thanks anyway.