Spotify should remove their app from the App Store immediately to show their support of Epic Games.
I think it's fine for Apple to decide what can and can't go on the App Store. But equally they shouldn't restrict users from installing apps from outside the app store.
Second iphone is when the AppStore launched.You are missing the point here. Apple's App Store closed garden policy has been in place since the first iPhone launched well over a decade ago. Anyone that chooses to purchase an iPhone should be well aware that it is a closed garden system and that all apps need to be downloaded in the App Store. Apple does not even come close to having a majority or smartphone market share, so a consumer can CHOOSE to buy a phone from a different manufacturer if they don't like the way Apple does business.
A very valid point. If you can mention it (maybe not even link to it, but just explain it's an option) that seems more fair.I'm perfectly okay with Apple having their payment system and even charging 30%. What I have an issue with, and agree with Epic and Spotify on, is that Apple bans even mentioning other ways to pay from inside apps. This is an anticompetitive practice (because Apple isn't losing 30% on their own services they sell) and needs to go.
To be clear, I think it's fine for Apple to decide what can and can't go on the App Store. But equally they shouldn't restrict users from installing apps from outside the app store.
of course, there's a real irony that the financial juggernaught that is Fortnite feels that Apple should provide its app for free on the App Store (because it's a "free app"). And then somehow they're the injured party for not getting to funnel 100% of the actual (not inconsiderable) revenue through their own private pipes without Apple even getting a dime.
I can’t install different software/apps in my car, why is a smartphone different?
Also, consumers have the right to install software on their own devices, from wherever they please. Can you imagine if Apple started forcing Mac users to only install apps from the Mac App Store? That would be disastrous. Yet that’s exactly what they’ve been getting away with on iOS all this time. It’s a dang shame.
I can’t install different software/apps in my car, why is a smartphone different?
Web apps are notoriously difficult to make secure.Of course they won't. Because the only alternative in iOS would be web-apps. And Apple refuses to implement certain web-technologies in a way that would allow developers to create web-apps that could compete with native apps.
Because web-apps definitely won't pay the 30% every developer owes Apple.
Is you car a mobile computer? An iPad/iPhone is. A MacBook is. Comparing apples to oranges (no pun intended) is a pathetic argument.
True. It's essentially gambling.Yeah really seems like one of the largest games companies in the industry (a market apple dabbles in at best, and where every platform provider takes a similar cut) and the largest music streaming service are really having trouble competing *eyeroll*
Also the micro-transaction economy of fortnite should be criminal itself.
That’s fine, so give them away to allow users to install their apps on iOS with out the App Store. Already can do it using the Macintosh, why not iOS?
You do realize you shot your own argument in the foot with that statement...Why not? Is Walmart entitled to 50% of every purchase? Amazon?