why don’t you share with the class if the EU is a profitable market for apple
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EU Antitrust Chief Warns Apple About App Store Fees and Safety Warnings
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why don’t you share with the class if the EU is a profitable market for apple
This whole thing is just annoying. Why does it have to be any different then on a computer?
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The purpose of the DMA is not to provide options for end-users, but rather to provide choices for developers to distribute their applications. Those who believe that users should continue using the App Store assume that developers will not distribute their applications solely outside the App Store.
“Most developers haven’t removed their anpps from the Play Store on Android?” It is possible that some developers did not see any benefit in creating their own app store if they still had to be available in the App Store on iOS. However, I believe that this may change once both major mobile platforms allow "side loading." This will allow larger developers to remove their apps from the default marketplaces and require users to install directly from them. This change in incentives could lead to a shift in the way apps are distributed on all mobile devices.
“Just make it like macOS”. You know what macOS, Windows, and Android don’t have? A profitable and very popular consumer third-party marketplace. iOS has been a boom for small developers to distribute and monetize their apps. The unintended consequence of the DMA is that it may actually significantly harm smaller developers as it increases the barrier to entry for these developers to market and monetize their low cost apps to end users with an App Store that ghettoize sser developers when the large developers pull their apps. #unintendedconsequences
“Most developers haven’t removed their anpps from the Play Store on Android?” It is possible that some developers did not see any benefit in creating their own app store if they still had to be available in the App Store on iOS. However, I believe that this may change once both major mobile platforms allow "side loading." This will allow larger developers to remove their apps from the default marketplaces and require users to install directly from them. This change in incentives could lead to a shift in the way apps are distributed on all mobile devices.
“Just make it like macOS”. You know what macOS, Windows, and Android don’t have? A profitable and very popular consumer third-party marketplace. iOS has been a boom for small developers to distribute and monetize their apps. The unintended consequence of the DMA is that it may actually significantly harm smaller developers as it increases the barrier to entry for these developers to market and monetize their low cost apps to end users with an App Store that ghettoize sser developers when the large developers pull their apps. #unintendedconsequences
All developers want is for Apple to play fair.
You've never heard of Steam?
theres a difference between defending a Company and defending an idea. Companies are in business to make money, not serve you or give you handouts.
developers have gotten cocky, not realizing what they’re getting from the App Store. They’re welcome to leave, but I’d guess they’d be broke trying to sell on other platforms. This is nothing more than big business lobbying to reduce the fees on a platform that made them big.
The DMA specifically states that “the gatekeeper shall allow business users and alternative providers of services provided together with, or in support of, core platform services, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same operating system, hardware or software features, regardless of whether those features are part of the operating system, as are available to, or used by, that gatekeeper when providing such services.” We’ll see.
I can’t say if it is or not for them, I don’t work for them. Personally, I laid off 30 people and closed my business in the EU Due to stifling over regulation.
Not if they want to access the Digitial Single Market in the EU. They have to follow the rule of the land or is Apple bigger than a democratically elected government?
And Apple wouldn’t exist without app developers.
You forget that nobody forces you to use extra freedom of installing from a third party. You can stay with the current setup without any sacrifices to your closed system.
So you have a company big enough to lay off 30 people but don’t know what a public income statement is 🤔
Without developers and their apps, iPhone would not have been such a big success. Remember Windows phone?
Gladly and already exited that market. retired at 35.Allowing apps to be installed freely from any source makes the most sense. Stay out of the EU if you don’t like it.
Without the iPhone, developers wouldn't even exist. It’s a symbiotic relationship.
Apple makes 25% of their total revenue in the EU, but only 7% of their app store revenue. They would still be very profitable even if they had zero profits from the app store in the EU.
Then I would say, stop being lazy and do it yourself if you want the answer. I’m not your servant. You go easily find out, you asked the question.
That’s not justification for anything. No company exists to break even. Without profits there’s no taxes and innovation.
Man the EU is a hot mess, I was for protection of the consumers. , but they are determined to destroy Apple now
Didn’t you read that Apple would still be very profitable?
No. You cannot compare percentages like that. For example, 7% of a billion is far greater profit than 25% of one million. The roi isn’t there, for example.
The DMA also states that gatekeepers "shall not engage in any behaviour that undermines effective compliance with the obligations of Articles 5, 6 and 7 regardless of whether that behaviour is of a contractual, commercial or technical nature, or of any other nature, or consists in the use of behavioural techniques or interface design"
The bean counters at Apple have thrown everything they know about strategic thinking and "skating to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been" out of the window, and they're fighting a war they cannot win.
Because there will be no option to choose a closed system. All systems will be open by law. I find that is in favour of developers and not consumers. Consumers don’t care about app stores. They care about systems that are safe to use and reliable. Something that cannot be said about ANY open system ever created. That’s the problem.