I propose I get a 15% cut of purchases made outside of Apple’s platform too
Isn’t that called “robbery”
Developers cheered when the App Store was announced as Apple’s 30% cut was so much lower than they paid other stores. Apple said the 30% was for payment processing. A bad choice since it covered far more. It isn’t robbery.
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Apple provides far more than payment processing, a point I already brought up. It is not robbery. Nobody is forced to release their app on Apple’s store. If you don’t want to pay Apple find your own customers and get them to pay you directly via the web.
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I develop apps as well. Apple provides the platform, the users, advertising, user friendly rules that promote spending, the store, delivering updates, etc. last I saw iPhone users spent significantly more money than Android folks. You may want all of the same functionality without paying for it but you are not entitled to Apple’s technology. So you can either pay for their services or you can roll your own. How much time and effort and cost will it take to replicate all of that? Again, the claims that 30% is robbery is inconsistent with the far higher prices developers had to pay pre-Apple store. That didn’t come with auto updates either.
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It is almost impressive how fundamentally you miss the point of so much going on here. The platform isn’t just the store, it starts with the phone and the OS. Apple has also cultivated a user base that has money and a willingness to spend on the platform. Again, since you keep thinking all of this is so easy, make your own phone, attract your own users, etc. Writing this out has distracted me enough to burn my pancakes. Moving on. Goodbye.
If you like android better spend your time there. If it is so easy to replicate what Apple has done then stop complaining and do it yourself.
No everyone is forced to use the Apple store. That’s what the case is about.
Indeed, Apple provides a shit horrible platform that is actively hostile to developers, if anything Apple’s cut should be -30%
Then don’t use iOS or the App Store. Simple.
A massive Apple shill I know argues that “they are Apple users, so anybody willing to profit from them should, of course, pay Apple”.
He wasn’t joking. Or smart.
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Never ending greed
Developers cheered when the App Store was announced as Apple’s 30% cut was so much lower than they paid other stores.
Oh right that other store I can use on the iphone.
The iPhone was never sold or offered with support for other stores. Just because you want access doesn’t mean Apple has to provide its services for free. Make a web app, attract your own users, and convince them to pay for it.
That’s not what I was poking fun at. You said it’s cheaper than the other stores. WHAT OTHER STORES?
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Fuck off asshole.
Apple is not required to let other stores on their system. How many digital stores are there for Xbox or PlayStation?
Can you define the term “antitrust” for me, please?
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What other stores? Can I please use them instead?
how would this remotely be enforcible? are they going to sue companies for charging the wrong price based on user agent?
Imagine you are making $$$ from your app or site.
One day you get an email “we’ll remove your app because we found out you didn’t pay us enough protection money. There is no appeal, we are a trillion dollar company, whatcha gonna do?”.
You instantly lose half of your income in the best case, 100% in the worst case. There is no alternative app store for iPhones outside of the EU.
DMA is supposed to fix this, but it’s only for the EU, and look at how Apple tried to spite the EU with their “compliance”.
Developers can release their work as a web app instead of going through Apple’s store. Alternative stores aren’t actually required. The EU does not have a great record of understanding the impacts when it comes to their technology laws. We all have that annoying pop up. Where is the next cable standard going to come from now that everyone is forced to use usb-c? Technology development and market reactions outside the EU
Nope. Apple blocks those apps.
What? Apple allows PWAs, though only with Safari as far as I know.
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I propose I get 27% of Apple’s profits. To keep them safe.
It’s “its investments in the tools, technology, and services that allow it to maintain its App Store and software.” is entirely money it’s spent to monopolize the application market on the phones it sells. Fuck the App Store and fuck the ridiculous hoops you have to jump through to get an app on an Apple phone, even for testing. And of course Google sees that and is trying to go down exactly the same road.
A good Linux phone can’t happen soon enough.
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I’m surprised this is on the US before Europe
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Anyone surprised?
Not cool.
Ooh, yeah! Me, too!
Hey, Amazon: Imma take a 1% cut of all your sales.
