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> Oh, I don't know. They could ask the developer for a fee. How about that? Yes, they could do that. I just don't understand the reason why they should be forc

• yyyk 6y ago
  Because their current behaviour is anti-competitive rent-seeking, and limits innovation. Anti-competitive by mandating use of their products, rent seeking because 30% is absurd (but alas legal), and as one twitter thread pointed out, if the web hadn't already existed, no existing web browser could possibly have passed Apple's app store policies.
  • thrwn_frthr_awy 6y ago
    I guess I don't see them mandating the use of their products. You can have your app on iOS or not. I just don't see the moral issue here. They've never raised the prices and have had this price since they had 0 3rd party apps so I have a hard time seeing it as rent seeking. Do they make a lot of money? Yes, they do, but is that enough to force them not too? I'm just not convinced of that yet.
    • yyyk 6y ago
      Apple are mandating the use of their Apple ID and Apple Payment System (aka products). The first might have a security rational, the second does not, yet devs must pay Apple's fees even if they are higher than alternatives[, a defacto price raise]. It used to be possible to get payments on iOS going without using Apple's payments, before Apple set their eyes upon that market.