Money trumps respect. Epic will pay for exclusivity the same way they handle it on PC. Steam treats devs with respect but some have moved to Epic because they operate the store at a loss to gain exclusivity.
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iPadOS Identified as Digital 'Gatekeeper' Under New EU Tech Rules
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Money trumps respect. Epic will pay for exclusivity the same way they handle it on PC. Steam treats devs with respect but some have moved to Epic because they operate the store at a loss to gain exclusivity.
Yup, you are right. The EU stripped away all the reasons behind which Apple and others can hide. They achieved it by using arbitrary criteria because their intentions are clear, they want to foster competition.
Time to pull out from the EU. Turning more and more into the likes of the CCP. Rules and regulations up the wahoo and seems like they’re always looking for someone to go after, fine, etc. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…if you don’t like apples ecosystem, or android’s, don’t buy it. Plain and simple. Why moan to get them to change it if you don’t like them in the first place? I’m not an Android user but I don’t cry about how they do things, I simply don’t spend my money on Android products.
How to be profitable is for Apple to decide. If they get no revenue, they will have no profits. Sometimes, revenue is very important. If Apple were not making so many devices, they would not get discounts and priority treatment from their suppliers. Imagine falling demand in China, no revenue (due to no sales) in the EU; suddenly Apple is looking at 70 to 80 million devices less. The US may also go the same route as the EU, then will Apple stop selling their devices there too? If they still sell in the US but not in the EU, will the shareholders accept it?
It makes perfect sense. Windows vs macOS has a Grand Canyon of a difference in the people that use it. Not so much with iOS.
I believe macOS is only as “secure” as it is just because Windows is used immensely more.
I'll take the philosophical arguments more seriously when the EU starts regulating the Europeans.
This all feels a lot like the local sheriff who just pulls over cars with out-of-state plates because it's good revenue and they don't vote in the local county.
I think he wanted a marquee app for his app store and Delta was one such app. He could have made it available in both app stores but then he would have had to pay for CTF on his App store downloads also, which is useless for him. Apple's fault here, not his.
They want to make everyone equally uncompetitive. That's not the same thing.
Yes, please! EU isn't ****ing around. I just hope they get ride of the "Core Technology Fee" bs asap and we're good!
I don't know if he can monetize the App itself due to GPL licensing issues (though I may be wrong on that as I haven't dug deeply into it). The reason he gave for not putting it in the App Store is that he has no way to tie App Store downloads to a subscription like he can with the Alt Store so the Alt Store version is guaranteed to cover the CTF but the App Store version would not be.
Again, this is also on Apple because he agreed to the alternative App Store terms and prepped for release before Apple changed the rules allowing emulators in the store.
If Apple wants to compete by crippling their competition, then the EU does not want such competition.
What has Apple done with the exclusive access to the deeper core? It has unfairly profited from it (by denying access of NFC to others, whereas it is free in Google Pay and Samsung Pay), keeping specific functions exclusive to its first party apps so that Apple can benefit whild disadvantaging the alternatives, and so on. That is what Apple did with the unfettered access it had.
Sure, they aren't advertised as less secure devices, do you expect Apple to do that? However, they are. And it's about many things other than security. You might be fine with it, some people aren't.
You paid for an iPad, knowing what that platform was and wasn't.
We do not know if iOS is fully compliant. Apple thinks it is. We will know only once the EU finishes its investigates and finalizes the quantum of fine. If it less than $38 billion, then Apple is lucky.
The gatekeeper laws have nothing to do with how a company treats its competition. They are triggered by size and nothing else, and the regulations are put in place without evidence of abuse. Apple treats their competition quite well actually-- they provide a platform they can target and they largely ignore other platforms.
This is solely about the EU attempting to cripple Apple and other foreign companies because they don't understand why all their beautiful European companies aren't able to gain a foothold on the world stage.
How will Apple be crippled? They are still allowed to integrate their own software and services (except safari - a decision of the EU that I disagree with). How does letting other people access the same APIs Apple uses cripple Apple? How will this actually change things for the worse?
This regulation is limiting consumer options. Millions of us prefer a closed ecosystem and think it's the right path to create a great product; now the EU is banning the possibility to create it. Apple has less dominance in the phone market than Nokia had; less dominance in the tablet market than Microsoft has in PCs, etc. How is this enhancing innovation and competition?
I would at least love the option to dual boot my iPad with macOS. I mean for crying out loud it literally uses the same processor as my MacBook Air.
How many major vulnerabilities have been found in Android Apps that compromise the device versus apps in the Apple system? Maybe there is a good reason to deny access to sensitive areas of the OS. An app gaining access to critical financial functions should be heavily vetted. Apples vets the apps, Google doesn't really care.
You do understand that 'arbitrary criteria' is not the kind of thing that any regulatory or legislative body should be known for, right?
Just to give you some examples:
- Some developers will decide to sell their apps outside the App Store.
- Some banks will decide not to use Apple Pay.
- Some parents will be tricked to download unverified software outside the App Store.
- Same with children and parental control.
I find it fascinating that the argument for Apple vs Spotify and Apple's 30% take ALWAYS conveniently ignores that Apple pays for the creation, maintenance, and development of the whole iOS ecosystem, while Spotify incurs exactly NONE of those costs.
Now, you might argue that 30% is too high of a take and I might even agree with that, but the idea that this is 30% vs 0% is not grounded in reality and undermines any argument that uses it.
As for "Apple has a unique product and doesn't allow competition", what competition does Apple forbid that Spotify allows?
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That would be a nice feature for some. I envision several problems with that option.
1. That would cut into the sales of Apple's laptops.
2. The typical user might get confused and get somewhere they don't know how to resolve. The majority of users are not technically savvy.
3. MacOS is not a touch OS for reasons I don't know. I personally don't like touch on a full computer system.
4. That would require the additional of a mouse and keyboard, or a combination. That adds to the expense.
Is there underpinnings within the iPad hardware that would not be compatible with MacOS?
Large centralized regulatory bureaucracies gonna large centralized regulatory bureaucracy 🤷♂️
Apple is being prevented from providing the type of products and services customers like me appreciate. The kinds of integrated systems that Apple became famous for and that customers like me value greatly.
The EU has told Apple not to be Apple, and has told Apple's customers that there is only one business model allowed and our preference for Apple over Android was misguided. If Apple's control of their platform was degrading my user experience, I'd change platforms.