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I see now… the Microsoft store will let publishers collect payments in alternative ways. That’s well and good, but I don’t see that as a big deal because the m
by jmull 5y ago
I see now… the Microsoft store will let publishers collect payments in alternative ways.
That’s well and good, but I don’t see that as a big deal because the microsoft app store isn’t that important.
The problem with the Apple ios app store isn’t that they have a specific, restricted payments mechanism. It’s that it’s the only practical way for developers to distribute native software to iOS devices.
- flumpcakes 5y agoI think this is important to Microsoft, and actually quite a smart move. By letting other people use the Microsoft/Windows Store app natively built into windows, with their own billing infrastructure, they basically kill off any reason to have other applications for buying/installing software. Imagine if Steam allowed Blizzard/Activision/EA to sell their games on the Steam store, and as long as they pay their own hosting/billing infrastructure costs, Valve takes no cut? I think that would immediately kill the need for EA/Ubisoft/Blizzard/etc. to ever need their own applications to sell software.
- TingPing 5y agoThey still get value from their apps, those won't go away.