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Epic Games, Spotify, and Tile Form 'Coalition for App Fairness' to 'Fight Back' Against Apple
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Just noticing apple updated its homepage to promote the App Store and its safe ways.
"an independent nonprofit organization"
really ?
really ?
What a nice list of whiny babies. So kind of them to out themselves so I can easily avoid supporting them since they don’t want to pay their fair share.
They didn’t build iPhone. Apple built it. AT&T came crawling first, then Verizon, then others.
This is what actually happened. Not the delusion you just dropped. If Spotify built their platform that Apple happily crawling to then they wouldn’t charge Spotify, would they?
It doesn't mention it makes 1.5 billions per month from developers though.
”I utterly despise Tile, but I’m not going to let that prevent me from jumping on anything Anti-Apple”.
I didn’t know anti-fanboy was a thing!
Which makes me wonder if any of these coalition members are getting a ”financial incentive”
I’m sure they’re not because it would eventually come out, but still, makes you wonder.Spotify and Epic Games think they're big players, but trust me, if they'd disappear overnight, they would make very little dent in the universe. Spotify is on the brink of collapse and Epic is ... well, just a gaming company. In the grand scheme of things they don't matter. Sure, a few hardcore gamers would cry and punch walls, but the rest would just go and buy some other game to chase their boredom away, because apparently the whole point to life is to sit and play effin' games.
Wow, seems like we have at least two cults going to war here.
Regardless of which cult you belong to, it would be good to knock Apple's high handedness down a notch or two.
Is this the right way to do it? Don't know, but someone has to start.
Regardless of which cult you belong to, it would be good to knock Apple's high handedness down a notch or two.
Is this the right way to do it? Don't know, but someone has to start.
And yet none of them have pulled their apps....I wonder why. I mean if you want to take a stand, take a stand. Otherwise this is just a stunt.
That is a design choice. The new OS just makes sure you know it. They could have it only search while the app is active, but that would mean location data would not be available to sell.
Lets fight for something that's been in place since it's inception.............
No kidding. I use Apple products every day (writing this from an iMac) but they're defintely not the underdogs they were in 1997. How altruistic can a trillion dollar corporation be?
All things considered (no matter which side your on), I think this is a better approach, from the coalition perspective, than Epic’s original “change the app and force them to take us down for breaking the rules we agreed with” approach.
Amusing that Spotify feel they should be involved in this given their treatment of Musicians ......
Apple ARE developers
If Apple were to lower their fees, that could be seen as “predatory pricing”. Anyway, I really don’t see any changes Apple makes ending up with ANYthing other than Apple hardware becoming more and more the “default” dominant platform.
Lower prices well under Android? more developers move over.
Allow the same customization as Android? more move over
Allow various app stores, like Android? more move over.
Heck, allow other hardware companies to make iPhone clones?
A lot of folks want Apple’s hardware to become the basis for everything. I’d prefer it didn’t.
Except, they can sign people up and take payments on their own websites, just like Spotify does already. that is why I am not seeing their problem. Imagine if you search amazon for a new sweater, find it, then wonder why company x doesn't advertise it on their own web site instead of paying amazon? Of course, you can click the link and go to the web site and see if you can get the sweater cheaper directly or not. hmmmm - just like the App Store. Coalition for amazon Fairness!
30% is a revenue share that covers use of Apple’s IP, various expenses plus profit.
No revenue, no share. But if there is IAP revenue, share they must. That’s what the developer agreement states. Devs don’t have to develop for iOS if they don’t want to 🤷♂️
Epic paid for 8+ years until they decided to get greedy and zero out Apple’s cut. Good luck with that, Epic.
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Apple just turned Tile’s whole business model into a service that runs efficiently in the background. As it doesn’t take a LOT of money to create those little trackers, Tile are likely to see competition as soon as next year from entrepreneurs seeing this as an opporunity.