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South Korea Passes Bill Banning Apple From Requiring Developers to Use App Store In-App Purchase System
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It will not make a difference as 99.999999% of iOS users will stay within the boundaries of the App Store. I know I will not be venturing out. All App Store purchases go on my Apple Card including subscriptions. If I have an issue I only have one place to go to get it addressed.
There also is zero chance I will ever go to a 3rd party app store to download a phone app. There will be a few zealots who will while the rest of the world will carry on.
There also is zero chance I will ever go to a 3rd party app store to download a phone app. There will be a few zealots who will while the rest of the world will carry on.
The cost of Apple's commission is just the cost of doing business.
Oh puhleeze. You're not an Apple user, you're just an Android troll with a MacRumors account. 🙄
A cost which a company like Apple should be able to recoup.
Apple and only Apple should decide their business model. Companies have an expectation of where their revenue comes from. The expectation of some people that just because they have purchased an iPhone they have subsidized its entire cost is flawed.
If Apple can statistically determine that each user of the iPhone contributes X dollars to the bottom line, they put that into their calculations when determining the price of the hardware. If all of a sudden the App Store is a lower source of revenue, they are within their right to raise the prices to meet the profit margins they want/expect.
That’s not how business works. Stupid businesses race to the bottom. It’s not sustainable. You get poor products with low profit margin and poor support.
Apple and Google must allow developers to use other payment systems, new Korean law declares
A major milestone in global anti-trust legislationwww.theverge.com
"up to 3 percent" is pocket change for Apple.
lol, better a government than Apple. I mean, that’s clearly their thought process.
$64/billion a year is insane for the App Store, with all the scams that get through.
Here's a list of things Apple provides to developers which they can charge for (or already do)
- Apple's Developers Program
- Being listed in the App Store
- Development tools like xCode
- Test tools like TestFlight
- API access
The last one is huge and only your imaginations sets the limit.
No way. People wanted the iPhone before it had an App Store. Adding an App Store and allowing 3rd party apps increasing the joy and interest in the platform sure. But iPhone is Apple’s ecosystem. It’s not black and white. No one owes you a free ride on the App Store using all of Apple’s technologies. 🙄
globally app store earns like 70 billion USD for Apple. Pretty sure they need that. A 10% reduction in commissions is still huge. Though I dare say apple will have to figure out a model which cannot be targeted by the governments... which will last for another 10 years or so I suppose.
😂 “some of their countermeasures”
I’m sure it’ll be effective. /s Apple depends on developers more than developers depend on Apple.
Apple knows it’s gone way too far. Countermeasures were discussed back in 2009 and nobody has dared open the folder since.
Google and Apple are getting what they deserve: regulation.
It should have happened years ago.
Next on the list (Apple only):
- allow sideloading
- allow third party web browser engines (so you can have real Firefox with add-ons, in particular ad-blocking).
- generally speaking, make mobile devices general purpose computers rather than appliances owners have little control over
It should have happened years ago.
Next on the list (Apple only):
- allow sideloading
- allow third party web browser engines (so you can have real Firefox with add-ons, in particular ad-blocking).
- generally speaking, make mobile devices general purpose computers rather than appliances owners have little control over
What are these strings of words? “It’s not black and white.”
People pay 30% on nearly every IAP. Users aren’t getting a free ride. Developers aren’t getting a free ride.
Yes, especially APIs for custom neural network hardware and machine learning APIs, their own Metal graphics APIs, text layout APIs, AR bores me but hey that finds surfaces and objects moving around in live video streams. It’s impressive.
And Apple could sell Apple Music subscriptions on Google Play. Or Apple TV subs.
Then simply find another app.
Why should the developer cater to just you?
Why should Apple cater to just you?
What makes you think Touch ID / Face ID is locked to Apple’s payments?
Even WhatsApp chats can use Touch ID / Face ID; there’s few restrictions of what it can be used for.
Apple can certainly make up fake restrictions, but usually anti-trust judgements force “reasonable access to first-party APIs”.
Apple has had a decade to find its legal footing. It clearly failed.
999$ developer annual fees for South Korean developers.
I don't doubt a second for Apple and Google to find evil workarounds to this new law... unless the law anticipated it in great detail.
You do understand the App Store has $64 billion in revenue each year, right?
Where on Earth did you create the idea anything here is being done “for free”?
So funny coming from South Korea where Samsung is run as an extension of the Govt. Corruption knows no bounds.
I am on the side that will in the end win. Vendor lock in is bad for the consumer. It provides too few choices. I love Apple OSes. What I don't love is the lack of freedom on the iOS platform. I want to have my phone my way. I cannot change the springboard in iOS. But I can change the launcher in Android. I cannot choose my own appstore in iOS. I can in Android. I can actually THEME Android. In iOS I am stuck with only changing a few colors here and there.