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Super obvious solution, give the customer the choice. Example you can buy games for PC from the store you like, you want the game to be on your Steam library th

Super obvious solution, give the customer the choice. Example you can buy games for PC from the store you like, you want the game to be on your Steam library then you use Steam, you want DRM free you go to GOG , you want to support the indie dev you go to other site: Customer can chose in the majority of games with the exceptions of some big titles (but you can still find EA games on Steam for example). The only objection to user choice is that the users are stupid and need someone else to chose for them, my answer is Apple has the money to educate the users , they can put a giant ad on TV to tell users about their "virtues"

darkwizard42 5y ago
Yeah but this isn't a choice unless the developer allows for it (and if they do, they can use price discrimination to force users to their preferred platform -- which on each of the game stores, this price discrimination exists today). Lots of developers make their product EXCLUSIVE to a platform and then you don't have any choice but to abide by sometimes a scummier platform's rules. Apple has undoubtedly made managing payments in their mobile ecosystem easier for the end user to understand. It definitely limits some of the choices for developers, but given what I have seen and experience in the massive failure that is Epic's game store, I think it is not something most consumers will benefit from.
- ThatPlayer 5y ago
  >they can use price discrimination to force users to their preferred platform And that's why stores get to compete to BE their preferred platform. Software stores are middleman. They've got to compete for both users and developers. You can't say apps have to be on all stores at the same prices when stores charge different prices to be on them. Or have different requirements to be on the store. Or when stores straight up do not allow your app (Apple with Xbox Cloud Streaming)
- simion314 5y ago
  An independent developer will put his games in all stores if he can. The only ones that will not do it are ones that might have their own store or have a deal, so I would expect a random dev to put is happ in the Apple store and in a Freedom store but for sure Apple will not put it's apps in the Freedom store and will make deals with others not to put their apps there. So the problem are giants like Apple,Epic,EA not the independent devs. As I mentioned most games are in more then one store , and if a game is missing from other store is not some bullshit contract or ToS, is because the developer did not had the time or motivation to do it. P.S. and let's not forget Apple censorship, you will not get soon all games from Steam approved by Apple because Apple decides for you what you should consume, their Christian/conservastives values are forced on you.

darkwizard42 5y ago

Yeah but this isn't a choice unless the developer allows for it (and if they do, they can use price discrimination to force users to their preferred platform -- which on each of the game stores, this price discrimination exists today). Lots of developers make their product EXCLUSIVE to a platform and then you don't have any choice but to abide by sometimes a scummier platform's rules. Apple has undoubtedly made managing payments in their mobile ecosystem easier for the end user to understand. It definitely limits some of the choices for developers, but given what I have seen and experience in the massive failure that is Epic's game store, I think it is not something most consumers will benefit from.

ThatPlayer 5y ago
>they can use price discrimination to force users to their preferred platform And that's why stores get to compete to BE their preferred platform. Software stores are middleman. They've got to compete for both users and developers. You can't say apps have to be on all stores at the same prices when stores charge different prices to be on them. Or have different requirements to be on the store. Or when stores straight up do not allow your app (Apple with Xbox Cloud Streaming)
simion314 5y ago
An independent developer will put his games in all stores if he can. The only ones that will not do it are ones that might have their own store or have a deal, so I would expect a random dev to put is happ in the Apple store and in a Freedom store but for sure Apple will not put it's apps in the Freedom store and will make deals with others not to put their apps there. So the problem are giants like Apple,Epic,EA not the independent devs. As I mentioned most games are in more then one store , and if a game is missing from other store is not some bullshit contract or ToS, is because the developer did not had the time or motivation to do it. P.S. and let's not forget Apple censorship, you will not get soon all games from Steam approved by Apple because Apple decides for you what you should consume, their Christian/conservastives values are forced on you.