Yoink the platform, ALL developers feel the pain. ALL developers stop releasing apps on the most profitable mobile platform, well, those developers will still feel the pain. 🙂 Folks will continue to buy iPhones, without those apps.
Which big companies in the EU “were behind pushing the regulators to have Apple make” which “changes”?
Apple might be ok with that simply because the Mac generates only ~10% of total revenues.
I actually wonder if there’s any middle ground to be found. The DMA closes a lot of doors to solution finding and that’s the way Vestager wanted it. I think what we’ll see is simply more and more features not offered in the EU or features only available in the two largest regions.
My bad. I thought registered devs were paid devs. After obtaining the 60 million info, I searched for registration benefits and got the result below. I assumed Apple wouldn’t provide all that for free.
Which big companies in the EU “were behind pushing the regulators to have Apple make” which “changes”?
I thought it was MR policy to back up claims with sources, but I may be wrong.
That AI summary is wrong. This site does a good job of explaining the difference.
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Tech giant 😂.
But it does in fact meet the criteria written into the law!
Good to know that they DO know how to get AI summaries. 🙂 I was just going to instruct them how to enter their text to get an AI summary! Saved some typing.
What specific CPS criteria are you referring to?
It should be self evident but maybe it isnt, laws are necessary for society to function.
That’s the whole point. The EU deliberately avoided naming audio streaming services as a CPS, despitee naming video streaming services a CPS. That was what @surferfb was claiming.
They only need to meet one of those two, so that’s not relevant. That said 100 million EU paid users x $10 x 12 months = $12 billion in revenue. Plus ads and other revenue. So I’m not sure that’s even true.
Seems pretty relevant considering the CPS being arbitrarily excluded despite meeting qualitative thresholds is the entire argument you are responding to.
Again, I just clarified the point and you are still ignoring it. The argument is that not adding audio streaming as a CPS is how the EU is protecting Spotify.
Me: Spotify was protected by the EU from DMA regulations by its arbitrary decision to exclude audio streaming services from the CPS list.
Spotify is quite literally a large digital platform that controls a major gateway between businesses and users that like other "gatekeepers” controls a comparable bottleneck.
I think music artists would like to have a word with you about how they have to go through Spotify!
True, but artists have choice where they publish their music. There is no single choke point to reach listeners like there is for iOS or Android apps. You have "alternative stores" like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon, and many others.
Spotify had a dominant position with commanding market share so artists have to go through Spotify.
Yes, but they don't make it technically impossible to share your music in other ways and still reach the same customer. Contrast that with app publishers that want to sell their apps to iPhone users. There is only the Apple sanctioned way to sell apps on iPhones and iPads.
“Developers have to be on iOS to reach the ~30% of the European market that represent iOS users, but musicians don’t have to be on Spotify to reach the ~65% of the European market that represent Spotify users” is a very interesting take.
