The video game market is also huge and ridiculously profitable because of the software itself. Could you imagine a bank spending the resources for developing apps for half a dozen different smartphone OS’s. Same thing for smarthome devices? Local parking meter apps?
The EU can 1) ban the company from selling the products or, 2) force it to sell off the Appstore, or 3) Stop Apple from selling apps in the EU.
No, they don't want Apple to force notarization upon developers. Apple has been designated as a gatekeeper, and the whole point of competition law is to make companies like Apple stop gatekeeping.
It’s capitalism. If you don’t like it, you’re free to use something else. Is that hard to understand?
As long as Apple accepts app store payments from EU bank accounts, I don’t see how they can escape it.
I don’t quite get why Apple don’t solve the problem by
Why don’t you use Android? Stop complaining about a private company. Don’t like it, don’t use it.
The apps I write for myself. I know them very well and they are quite popular with me.
No disparaging language allowed, so Apple cannot warn by spreading FUD so, that is not an option.
They cannot disparage others. Nothing says that they cannot go about touting how good they are.
So you're fine with Apple abusing its power, because users and developers can technically choose to not use Apple products and not develop for them? Apple is not just some random company you can ignore. The iPhone has 1.5 billion users, which gives Apple gatekeeping power and enormous influence over large parts of society.
Agree. The EU DMA is a field test of Apple’s warnings and we’ll see soon enough whether developers can profit from having their own app stores and whether users are more vulnerable to getting compromised. ****** developers like Epic and Spotify want free access to the billion+ iOS users without paying Apple one thin dime. We’ll see how that goes down too but I’ll bet you my Social Security Deposit both will stay in the App Store as well as having their own sideshows.
Because if enough people "went Android". Apple would be WAY more likely to get the message and make the changes themselves. In order to gain more users or prevent users from leaving the platform.
Yes, as they should. But, they also know what they are getting into by choosing it. No one forced them. They had time to figure it out. Which OS and or system works best for them. We all want things to be 100% exactly the way we want. However, we all don't build these things that we want. We only get to pick of the existing things based on what works best for us. Sometimes is MacOS o iOS. Sometimes is Microsoft, or Android.
Does free speech include defaming others? Just asking.
