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EU Likely to Charge Apple With Anti-Competitive Behavior This Week
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What does China has to do with this topic? Why is China always been dragged into discussions?
Apple can easily avoid this by setting the commission they charge direct competitors to zero. If an Apple service exists in a category, then the category's rate should be zero.
So, if you are a music app, like Spotify or Pandora, a fitness app like Peloton, or a streaming app like Disney+ or Netflix, then Apple should say there is no commission on their in-app purchases so that Apple does not lend itself an unfair advantage.
Either that, or Apple collects 30% of it's own app/service purchases to split equally among it's competitors.
So, if you are a music app, like Spotify or Pandora, a fitness app like Peloton, or a streaming app like Disney+ or Netflix, then Apple should say there is no commission on their in-app purchases so that Apple does not lend itself an unfair advantage.
Either that, or Apple collects 30% of it's own app/service purchases to split equally among it's competitors.
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Because all the government services, benefits, public spending, education etc cost money and you are using these benefits.
You are welcome to create your own country and not charge tax. Let us see how long your country will last
If Apple cared about security and privacy, why do they set Google as the default search engine and let users setup Gmail through Apple Mail? Better yet, why let any Google app through the App Store? Talk about collecting data…
A smartphone is also a toy. An essential device as a Cell Phone can still be accomplished with a non-smart phone or a very limited smart phone - jitterbug for example which my grandparents have. My parents actually stated the other day they want to get away from iPhone when they retire - too much for them to deal with these days. They just need something to text and call.
Mmmm I’m tired of these news. Though I do wonder what Steve Jobs would have to say about all this. If he was alive.
I wish, but all of these governments took all of the land just to sell it back to their own people. We the people can’t even own land on the moon unless you’re a billionaire.
Your parents are wise! Like! +1
I will also throw out all that digital B$ as “soon” I retire in approx. 30 years. Well, with corona lock downs, and probably more lock dows in the future, a video call feature also makes sense, but that’s all.
They own the store. How do you quantify their store-related costs and expenses since they are not exactly, directly paying themselves?
And Spotify using Apple environment, OS, payment processing, xcode, marketing, distribution platform and other resources that Apple created and maintain so other could use them.
Spofity are welcome to create their own os and not charge tax. Let us see how long their os will last
I work for a big ecommerce company (just like Amazon) and the platform sell their own products but you as a seller can join the marketplace and sell your own products on our platform. We have a tax for this! Devs needs to be paid, support, distribution, marketing and many other departments that you as a seller don't need to do it. You are free to create your own website and platform and not charge a tax
But in the end the 5%-30% tax is less than creating your own website, paying your own dev team, maintaining support line, paying for marketing, and the list can go on.
That's how things works, everywhere! Goverment, Amazon, shop from the corner, everyboy has a tax!
Not even close. Microsoft threatened OEMs if they uninstalled IE or installed a different browser. Microsoft also claimed IE could not be uninstalled. Apple does neither of these. In fact, Apple provides a store where Spotify can be downloaded for free. No cost to Spotify for bandwidth, etc. Also, Apple provides the ability to uninstall Music, and even the recent ability to set Spotify as the default music app.
Apple absolutely have material market pricing ability in app distribution. There are literally dozens of examples of companies directly citing that their pricing has to take in to account Apple's mandatory 30% cap. Apple will lose this case. Badly.
Customer already payed for the device and licensed the OS. Don’t think Spotify contends paying for the App Store app hosting service and app review. But contends that an in app purchase is their sale not an App Store sale. Why are they being forced to give the sale to someone else? Well because that someone else can ban their app from their customers phones
On issue of using Apple tech. Don’t think they mind paying for development and production licenses How much is it?.
Still what about Apple using energy, coms, your house, your TV … so on and so forth? If everyone thought on a 30% basis there would not be enough money in the world to pay for a piece of bread.
Imagine the App Store with almost no third part Apps? Would they be able to sell an iPhone? Humm, maybe it should be the digital services requiring a share in the iPhone revenue no? How many customers than they bring to iOS devices.
The relationships of this kind are mostly simbiótic man. Not a master slave. The only reason it is at the moment is the 50% market share in the US. Google likewise. Hence the case for market position abuse.
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Google has a) already settled a significant case in the EU and b) doesn't force apps to use their in app payment mechanism. For instance, you can buy books through Comixology on Android using your Amazon payment details without Google receiving any cut whatsoever.
Does Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, et al, take an existing game made by a third party, duplicate it entirely, make changes to the UI to avoid DMCA, and sell it for less on their stores?
100% this. Why does the whole Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft thing continue to come up? It’s apples and oranges, people.
six of one, half a dozen of the other.
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