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I propose I get a 15% cut of purchases made outside of Apple's platform too
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.
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.
it 100% is robbery. payment processing via other systems is 2.9%+0.30 (the 0.30 base is outrageous alone). apples is significantly higher and for what? cdn distribution that github gives for free? And developers dont even want to use their payment process when they can use 3rd party that covers all platforms with the same code.
Never mind all the nonsense apple does to make it incredibly hard to deliver applications to apple devices. and dont give me the security nonsense we solved that ages ago.
at most 5% is reasonable for what apple actually provides.
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.
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%
Im a app developer. no they really dont. the hand waving you're about to do is mostly routine os related functionality and is completely unrelated to the app store functionality (payment processing, distribution, security checks)
If you don’t want to pay Apple find your own customers and get them to pay you directly via the web.
Apple prevents you from doing this when your customers want on device functionality, regardless of what device they may use. see the 'link off device' charge.
Again I wouldnt care if there was a convenient way to bypass the appstore and maintain autoupdates but sadly there really isnt without apple trying to scare the shit out of their users.
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.
Not cool.
Never ending greed
Anyone surprised?