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Yes. Apple's rules oblige app vendors to not advertise or link to any external method of signing up for a service. So, not only can you can only use Apple's p
by inopinatus 6y ago
Yes. Apple's rules oblige app vendors to not advertise or link to any external method of signing up for a service.
So, not only can you can only use Apple's payment methods, but you have to lie (by omission) to consumers about their options.
This is the market distortion of the App Store.
- moralsupply 6y ago> Apple's rules oblige app vendors The rules only oblige app vendors if they agree with that contract. Users also only engage in doing business with Apple on a voluntary basis. That's not extortion, by definition.
- inopinatus 6y agoI didn't say it was. It's also not illegal to have market power. What is unlawful, at least in my enlightened jurisdiction, is abusing market power to mislead the consumer, and even more so obliging other parties to do so.
- scarface74 6y agoCan I put a product in Walmart and tell users they can get it cheaper elsewhere - in Walmart?
- wayneftw 6y agoIf you don’t put your product in Walmart is your product guaranteed to be a failure? Have you ever heard of anybody releasing a wildly successful app and it not being in the Apple app store? Are you aware that there are many many many more stores like Walmart than there are stores like the Apple app store?
- scarface74 6y agoIf you don’t put your product in Walmart is your product guaranteed to be a failure? Tell that to all of the low end TV manufacturers, game systems (see Sega), toy manufacturers, and back in the day musicians who went out of their way to create an edited version just for Walmart.
- wayneftw 6y agoThat proves nothing. Those products would not have failed if they were not in Walmart because there are plenty of other outlets instead of just two.
- scarface74 6y agoSo where else can toy manufacturers go in 2020 to sell their toys in retail? The music labels and movie studios knew they couldn’t be successful before digital without Walmart
- wayneftw 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superstores https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superstores
- scarface74 6y agoNone of those other stores sell toys and a few are bankrupt in the US.
- wayneftw 6y agoYou couldn't me more wrong. Target? Best Buy? Costco? Amazon??? And the list doesn't end there - even Khol's sells toys - https://www.kohls.com/catalog/toys.jsp?CN=Department:Toys&searchTerm=toys&submit-search=web-regular https://www.kohls.com/catalog/toys.jsp?CN=Department:Toys&se... Try harder.
- scarface74 6y agoYou can’t walk into an Amazon store and buy toys. Retail is still a lot larger than e-commerce especially for kids who like to browse. Kohl’s is tiny compared to Walmart and doing distribution only in Kohl’s is a non starter. Not to mention the catalog is online - not physical stores. Best Buy sells electronic games but there is far more to toys than that.