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The problem really comes down to market power: if you want any chance of reaching the iphone user market, you gotta bend over and take it from apple. Sounds fa
by darksaints 5y ago
The problem really comes down to market power: if you want any chance of reaching the iphone user market, you gotta bend over and take it from apple.
Sounds familiar...kinda like how corporations maintain cartels on employment, and how unions formed to allow workers to form a cartel of their own to fight back.
I am dead serious: app store developers should form a union, and go on strike. Hold back any and all apps from the app store, and beat back those fees from 30% to practically nothing. The iPhone has no value without an app ecosystem...if anything, they should be paying developers.
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoIt's kind of a weird situation, because it would be a very short-lived union, since the first thing they should want is competing app stores. At which point competitive pressure would keep the various app stores in check and you would no longer need the union for anything. But as a solution to the immediate problem, it could work, right?
- GreenWatermelon 5y agoIt should be something done by some sort of Software Engineering Union, though I don't know if independent developers and small studios would be willing to join.