Or do you want Apple having more access to everything you have than you? Or do you support company handing over location data of suspects without jurisdiction procedure and prosecute random people without consequences?
This whole ruling merely offers “choice” which didn’t exist before, rather than “mandating you to use external payment system”. You still have your choice to hand over payment information exclusively to Apple.
Nobody is forcing you to give your credit card to anyone. Don't want to, then use another app.
Is their product, they spent tons of $$$ on R&D and keep spending it in hosting.
Can you guys just stop this “free market” arguments? Absolute freedom is a hoax and doesnt event exist in nature. Absolute free market is ripe for price gauging, intentional hoarding and vague descriptions etc.
Hence all efforts now on preventing the disastrous sideloading flood. IMHO surprisingly Craig did a better job than Tim on that subject.
The thing is, you might not want to, but there might people who do, and allowing you to do that won't sacrifice your need, you can still pick Apple if you wish.
The judge also slapped Apple down for having excessively high fees.
Yes, Apple spent lots of money for R&D etc, to maintain such system and I am sure few if any would argue Apple should not earn their own cut.
They have the power tho. They don’t have to provide the store. This is like telling Kroger they have to allow people to pay Meijer instead of Kroger for the goods in their store.
Not if Apple will go the same route as Google: still charge a fee minus a few percentage points resulting in no change in cost for the developer.
So is there anything preventing Apple demanding a greater cut of out-of-IAP purchases? Like 50%?
Why does Apple choose not to take a cut for services and goods? They host the apps in the store and the apps are key to the service provided. Seems an arbitrary distinction on Apple's part. Those apps have no problems with external payment systems and most even accept Apple Pay. Apple has no problems supporting payment systems in those apps where they don't get a cut.
But what does this choice get me, the consumer? What is the benefit to me?
I worked in the payments sector for years. Exactly this.
What happens now is if you go to the developers website you may get a selection of different pay options than what Apple allows in their apps. I always look for that and I have saved a lot of money over paying through the app itself. Difference is I have to hunt for the website to go through. It would be nice if that info was in the app.
No this is about the court denying Apple to deny its user freedom of choice trough freedom of information.
Can app developers not provide this information via other means like a website or advertising campaign?