I spent a quite a bit buying albums on iTunes over the years, burned a couple of thousand of my CDs before selling them prior to moving overseas and then last year due to Apple Music and iTunes clashes and some user errors I deleted it all. Now I am ok with using Spotify. Minimising and decluttering can be freeing. Not all will agree but whatever is best for you is fine.
If Spotify or Epic want to pull their apps, Apple won't stop them. The devs are only on the app store because it's making them money, the argument is solely about wanting a bigger cut of the pie.
If you sell World of Warcraft in your store, it has been like that for 15 years: Of course people are directed to buy subscriptions elsewhere. With stickers directly on the box.
Many malls. Especially the better ones do take a cut of the stores sales. Next
Not at all the same.
No, the US government never said such a thing and no court is going to rule that a company that has a minority share of the market is anywhere near a monopoly. Next?
True, but if there is only Bestbuy in your town and no one else is allowed to open a supermarket, it will be questioned for sure.
Every single day, more android phones are sold than iPhones.
It's true, but it's not relevant. It takes a massive investment to build and run a shopping mall and attract customers to it, but does that mean you should be able to set up a stall inside somebody else's mall to sell your product without paying them, just because asking you to commit those resources is too big an impost, and there's no more real estate in that suburb to build your own mall in? And yes, some malls do have lease agreements including a percentage of turnover at different tiers, and will terminate your lease, kick you out, and keep all your stock locked up while they take you to court if you try to take payment on the side which you don't declare to them.
Read the app store policy. Physical goods (books and pizzas) and services (such as Uber) are treated differently to digital goods (apps) and services (subscriptions), for reasons that are completely valid and should be obvious.
Except that Apple aren't in this position, they have a minority of the smartphone platform market, they're not stopping Spotify distributing an app for free on the App store, they're not stopping Spotify selling subs on their own website, and they're not taking a commission on sales on Spotify's website.
FedEx and UPS seem to do just fine against the USPS.
Imagine if they (Apple) said they were taking 30% from their subscriptions to give to charities. The Spotifies and Epics would blow a gasket because they wanted a cut and that Apple was performing unfair marketing practices that forced people to like them more, lol.
Its not people that are complaining, the software companies are. I know some spotify users, on iphone and android, and I've asked them what they think about this, and they just shrug their shoulders, not giving two damns.
The actual Uber service is not ‘consumed’ on the iPhone. Therefore the 30/15% does not apply. Buying physical books on the iPhone: same. Buying ebooks in the Kindle app on the iPhone: ah, you would consume it on the iPhone, therefore the 30/15% would apply. Amazon doesn’t want to pay that, so you have to use a web browser for purchasing. It’s a non issue in my opinion.
What ? Shady ? So Spotify can use, AppStore, Apple SDK for the App, and just wehre the Pay Apple for using the Plattform ? The App is free and they just say, ill take everything you are giving me and pay nothing and on top of that ill sue you for the "Anticompetitive" behaviour ... like What, where is the "Innovatioion" here, what have Spotify dine to pay the Artisit more, that they have more ... just Nothing, Spotify business is important here not the innovaiton or what so ever....
