But old-school is where people illegally download pirated copies of software to avoid any kind of payment to the developers. Even with Apple's closed garden, pirates will find a way if you force them to pay. IAP and advertising actually managed to fight pirated software and provide free entertainment to people who can't afford it.
If Apple think it’s not anticompetitive, they can search for a new own world, have their own countries and citizens there, with their own laws, and keep insulting, dictating and pursuing devs there. But as long they keep doing business here on the earth, they will have to follow the rules and laws countries set up, simple as that. I’m confident they will lose that fight badly.
It is graduated. Do you get a waiver on rent or any other business expense because you are new? If you have an app that people subscribe to and keep it beyond the first year, it drops to 30%. The developer has paid for their share of the platform access and deserves the break for its quality.
I agree with the mix-and-match streaming services idea - it could actually benefit the streaming companies. Forcing customers to buy a subscription just for one show is wrong and the streaming services could be making more money selling individual shows alongside subscriptions. I think they should also offer free content with ads for non-members.
So, you're saying your clean and tidy experience depends on others not being able to install 3rd party stores? How does that make sense?
How about they just kill the APP store all together. They have a general policy that ensure products they offer contribute to their 35% profit margin. They tend to cancel products that are not considered hobbies and fail this metric. With all of the Platform development costs, APIs, card processing, service, bandwidth, storage, and data centers required to run the store, their profit is far below the 30% fee. If it becomes a drain on profitability, Apple will loose interest and the store will languish
I wouldn’t trust any company.
We simply need more choices, then they can keep it going... I wouldn’t mind even if they ask for 70% if they think their services have that value, but only as long customers and devs can move to a different store, or even self host. Their store is nothing special, and can easily be replaced by something else.
It indeed is. But you put it wrong...
I also dislike those type of free games, but it’s their right to build and offer them, as it’s ours not to play them. As long there is no law which categorizes them as illegal or harmful, they shall be allowed to offer them. Same with Fart Apps or the [n]th Calculator App, it’s their right to build and offer them. That’s a free market which Apple & Co. are trying to regulate based on their own definition, which is plain wrong.
It's a free market. Developers are welcomed to put their apps only in Samsung store, which is the majority of marketshare in S. Korea. Apple has only ~24% of marketshare. Free market means you are free to leave if you don't like the market. It doesn't mean you are entitled to force what you want. If the developers are leaving and their apps are truly great, people will follow them and not buy iPhone anymore. That's how free market works.
Yeah... that's how it works. They charge the same 30% everyone else does. It's standard pricing.
Change to a standard has to start somewhere, and they're targeting Apple for that change.