The current leadership will go to their graves making sure they squeeze every single dime they can from developers. They still think Apple is this struggling company that almost went bankrupt instead of a $4T behemoth. They think others are only successful because of Apple and they’re all trying to screw Apple over. Maybe things will change when Cook, Schiller and Cue are completely retired from the company.
Yup! There will come a time in the future when there’s middlemen companies in place that are yoinking their profits off the top of what Apple ends up taking due to small developers needing someone else to deal with the additional complexity. And that really is the point. There are companies that want into that chain and this gives them an opening. The total cost to a small developer will increase.
In my mind, it actually strongly points that contrary to the thoughts of most here, Apple actually truly thinks it's worse for their users and therefore will spend extra to ensure only those users whose governments who think they know better than Apple are negatively impacted.
Yes, governments that really want easy access to their citizens’ devices would of COURSE say that what everyone’s saying about security and privacy is FUD.
“You don’t need security and privacy from us! You don’t need it from the ad companies either, we’re all your friends, guy!”Apple knows it’s worse for their users and for their developers, but they know the large companies that can’t find any other way to make a profit aren’t going to stop. In the end, if it moves more iPhones for Apple making them MORE available around the world, it’s still a win for them.
It does nothing for REAL competition though, the kind of competition that Apple was to Nokia. With every region solidifying their need for the iPhone as a part of their mobile tech future, that’s one more region that will be resistant to ACTUAL competition happening.
It sounds like how taxes work (or at least, how it would work if billionaires could somehow be made to pay their share). You don't exclude the people who basically pay zero taxes from partaking in your country's infrastructure, do you?
It's amazing how Meta, Epic, Spotify, etc. were able to convince so many people on here that they have Apple's users' best interests at heart, not Apple. To the point that when a small developer posts on here that Apple's 15% is a great deal and makes their lives way easier they get told they're crazy and don't understand their own business.
Digital content (which typically has zero marginal costs, and which tend to be consumed on your mobile device) vs the delivery of physical goods or services (which tend to have fairly high marginal cost of production), but you already knew that, and it's a point of contention where we are just going to have to agree to disagree on.
EU and Japan can learn from each other. Japan's approach seems to more case by case and less confrontational at least regarding interoperability. On the other hand some reporting suggests, that the Japanese Anti-Trust agency has much more discretion to adapt the rules in case they don't like how Apple and Google comply. Otherwise, the two frameworks are remarkably similar.
It's a subscription to the tools/support to create an app. It does not allow you free rain on Apple's IP. Would you allow anyone free rain on your IP for $99 a year?
It must be remembered that Epic’s problem was not the fee initially. It was that Apple wouldn’t cut them a better deal than was already in place. From the bottom to the top of the pile, if you met the requirements for a “type” of business, then, even though Amazon was the reason WHY Apple cut the deal, Apple let Amazon know that it wasn’t an Amazon deal. Anyone else that approached them with the same type of business would get the same deal.
They’ve taken a less confrontational stance because Japan didn’t start with a confrontation. Japan knows how to regulate tech companies in a way that doesn’t end up with them moving their base of operations out of the region. They know how important tech is and how it’s better to have those revenues coming into the region than to go somewhere else.
It's too soon to draw conclusions I think. We don't know how the Japanese government and public will react when Apple starts to play games like they did in the EU.
The U.S. judge attempted to resolve the issue, but it didn’t lead anywhere. Essentially, Apple’s position is that they typically receive a certain amount from x country or market- then they plan to implement a complex pricing strategy to maintain that same revenue level
I thought we were talking about the use of Apple’s IP. What does that have to do with whether an app is “free” or not? If Apple deserves compensation for use of its IP then that should apply to every developer not just those that offer IAP.
I believe that Apple's tax deal with Ireland started the confrontation between EU/EC and Apple. It never really recovered from that. Not entirely Apples fault because Ireland broke the EU laws but I wonder if not Apple pressed Ireland to a too good deal. Lot's of noise on the whole and bad PR for Apple. That 0.0005% tax on European profit did not go down well.
Competition based on someone else’s property is not competition. It’s governments playing Robin Hood.
not really, I think the hope is if apple is 'bad' enough, apple will lose their place in the economic system (it's called the market at work but it can be perverted through various means - careful what you wish for)
