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.
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.
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.
They are if their actions are determined to be anticompetitive. Antitrust laws prohibit a wide variety of monopolistic activities. Most companies at the top of the tech industry have been successfully sued under antitrust laws at some point in recent history, and for behaviors for less egregious than this.
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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.
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Apple is not obligated to let third party stores operate on their platform. No matter how much you whine about it.
They are if their actions are determined to be anticompetitive. Antitrust laws prohibit a wide variety of monopolistic activities. Most companies at the top of the tech industry have been successfully sued under antitrust laws at some point in recent history, and for behaviors for less egregious than this.
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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.
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Apple and Google are not the same, nor are the markets the same, which is why Google’s court case doesn’t apply to Apple.
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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.