Yet, Spotify wants to cut costs they don’t need. They already have all the infrastructure they need. They alreday have payments in place. They would opt out if Apple allowed them, but Apple do not.
You are correct in them being big and already having the ability to handle payments, host their servers of music, etc., but a BIG one is basically the free advertising on the App Store because they are the biggest music streaming platform and marketing is a huge money sink, now is it more than the 30% cut that Apple takes I am not sure as the amount that is spent on marketing varies company to company especially big companies. Also how many people specifically pay for Spotify because of the ability to have your payments through Apple? That is another metric that is difficult from an outside view to gauge what the potential loss would be.
What costs are you talking about? Spotify pays Apple $99/year plus 15% on a few legacy subscriptions. They've already opted out.
And if sideloading becomes a thing, as it looks like it will, I genuinely hope Apple twist the knife and make the Spotify's / Epics of the world to make a decision get in or get out of the app store. Ride the coat-tails or go it alone.
Again, Spotify isn't paying the 30% except on a few legacy subscriptions. They stopped allowing IAP several years ago. They aren't paying Apple a significant amount of money.
There are a thousand things one could go after Apple over. I’m trying to think of anything less critical than protecting the ability of another unethical megacorp to score even more cash off its business model of selling other peoples products it grossly underpays for. It’s a crap business model that doesn’t deserve the money it already gets.
People are always free to complain. Apple has done no shortage of that whenever legal cases don't go their way [shrug]
But one of those companies only packages up other peoples products, pays them little for it, AND wants all the benefits to come their way. And wont even update their music to hires or fix their apps in car to be more usable. That's all they actually have to deliver. The apps.
If Apple are forced to allow sideloading and other stores, I hope they make it a one way decision... choose another store and you no longer have access to the regular store. See how tempting it is then. Use security to justify it. If you want access to whatever you like then we will let you BUT you dont get to do whatever you want without a cost and we wont let you install apps that could compromise security of the Apple Store only users.
That's not reality. That's speculation. There's no reason to think a significant number of prices will come down. They're already low. Prices are based on what consumers are willing to pay, not developer costs.
Why is everyone acting like they don’t have alternatives? They can always re-direct customers to their web app. They can then use their own payment processing, etc. on the iPhone.
Why is it these complaints are aimed at Apple and not Google who has a far larger share and same requirements in general? It’s because apple users are more valuable
That’s essentially what they and companies like Epic want. They want a free ride. They aren’t even arguing about unfair prices. They just don’t want to pay. They should focus on improving their service and stop with all the free trials. How do they expect to make money if they are giving it away for free.
