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This wouldn't be acceptable under the spirit of these regulations. And definitely wouldn't be acceptable to a lot of us. If apple wants, they can split their O
by aaomidi 5y ago
This wouldn't be acceptable under the spirit of these regulations. And definitely wouldn't be acceptable to a lot of us.
If apple wants, they can split their OS and their phones if they want to "make money for writing an OS". At the same time that'd also obligate them to make it possible to install android OS on their hardware.
But yeah no, apple does not "deserve" a percentage of your revenue because they have written the OS and don't let you switch the OS.
Imagine arguing Microsoft should charge people x% of every software sale because they write the OS.
- threeseed 5y ago> This wouldn't be acceptable under the spirit of these regulations You clearly haven't been paying attention to the EU regulations. Because it is exactly in the spirit of them and what Apple did in response to Dutch authorities demanding third payment providers [1]. They got their 15-30% either way. And it is completely normal for Apple to have a commission on application purchases made on their platform. It's no different to how many websites e.g. Shopify or hardware e.g. Playstation work. [1] https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitlement/ https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...
- aaomidi 5y agoI have been. And I expect apple to get in a lot of trouble over the decision with NL. I actually wouldn't be surprised if we saw a huge % of global revenue fine for that. And apple would deserve it.