I didn't say I agreed with it; this will be the argument Apple will use. If I can put apps on my Mac without having to go through the App Store, for the life of me don't understand why I couldn't similarly do it on my iPhone.
We can say we don't care, but the likelihood I will keep pulling out my credit card each time a new app wants to charge me for something is going to quickly diminish. That little moment of resistance will be the difference between some companies making it and others going bust.
Your point? Apple is not in a busses of ‘free for all’ and they would never be on the position they are, their products would have never come to be, if they were in a busses of offering things for free.
That makes no sense if they are already on the app store competing with other apps already. You're essentially saying that the developers have to keep accepting/accept a lower price now that they no longer pay a fee. If anything, devs will hold the same price and pocket the difference because people are already paying those prices. It really sounds like your advocating a "race to the bottom" mentality here.
You can still use Apple's iOS app store exclusively. Unless you know something we don't know
What took you to that conclusion in the first place? A mall is privately owned by a company. On the other hand, it’s us iPhone users who own our own devices.
There is kind of a rate the market is willing to pay for apps or service subscriptions. Races to the bottom don't generally happen because so many of these services have fixed costs they have to account for and gouging doesn't happen as the public has no appetite for it. I noticed that when Apple cut the commission for most developers to 15% from 30% that there were no 15% price cuts to what the developers were charging their customers.
Once you purchase an app, is it still "in the store"? I mean when you buy a PS5 from bestbuy, you go home with it its no longer "in the store". Your only relationship is with the hardware and sony. But in "Apples Store", apps on the "home screen" are apparently still "In the store"? What kind of logic is this were the store has no boundaries allowing the apple to dictate a developer's business into perpetuity?
If I'm a business owner and don't like paying Apple for rent inside the macOS mall, I can setup shop next to the mall for free. It's only at the iOS mall that I'm not permitted to do that.
Sure, Apple has to obey the rules. But I didn't know citizens were state resources. Very odd terminology.
