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Apple's position here is correct. I as a non-Netherlands user don't want my apps pushing their own payment methods, so app providers should only be making sepa
by ummonk 5y ago
Apple's position here is correct.
I as a non-Netherlands user don't want my apps pushing their own payment methods, so app providers should only be making separate apps with their own payment methods available to Netherlands-based users.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoDon't install such apps if you don't want them. But how indecent you must be to insist other people who want such apps to not have them?
- ummonk 5y agoIf they want such apps they can buy an Android. Or move to the Netherlands.
- ginko 5y agoI'd prefer if Apple were forced to open iOS :)
- robgibbons 5y agoI like how you turned a common Apple apologist's argument right on its head. If you don't like it, just don't buy it!
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoI want to buy the device, and do whatever I please with it. But apple lets users only rent their phones, and allows the use of rented devices only with severe restrictions, so I'll rather pass.
- simion314 5y ago>I as a non-Netherlands user don't want my apps pushing their own payment methods, so app providers should only be making separate apps with their own payment methods available to Netherlands-based users. === I am an Apple user similar as GNOME users ouyr brains can't handle options, even the idea that some user would chose something then me SEGFAULTS my brain for days. Not joking, this is about giving options, Apple fanboys could continue to pay with Apple and pay more. Why should some assholes decide that I should not pay with my bank account or with PayPal, I don't care that Net York times or other US companies are shit with canceling subscriptions.
- ummonk 5y agoYes, why are you buying an Apple if you want options?
- HNSucksAss 5y ago
- simion314 5y agoProbably because there is no law yet to force Apple to put on their boxes same warnings we have on cigarettes. "You don't own this device, Apple grants you the privilege of using it" "Purchases on this device will include a 30% cut that will be exfilterated to US so billionaires get a bigger yacht" "Information that can help you but cost Apple will not be shown to you, because information is power and Apple wants it" ...
- mrsuprawsm 5y agoEven if we accept your premise, the usual method of enforcing region-based separate is very crappy on Apple's platforms. I am a fairly big proponent of Apple products in the majority of cases, but this particular case is very shitty. Many apps are released only in a single country or a handful of countries. Many users create an Apple ID and thus an App Store account, and purchase apps, in their home country. They they move abroad. Their country of residence is not the same as the country that their Apple ID exists in. Apple does not offer a mechanism to move your Apple ID and App Store purchases between countries. You can move your Apple ID and lose access to your purchases, or keep your Apple ID in your (wrong) "original" country, but not both. This burns people who move between countries. In the case of this regulation, e.g. Tinder would release an app for the Dutch market... but expats would not realistically be able to use it, hence Apple would likely still be in breach of the regulations). In the more general case, many people are unable to access important iOS applications purely as a virtue of having moved countries. It's shitty.