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It won't eat into any revenues. In the Netherlands Apple charges 27% commission on any revenues paid into external payment systems [1]. And what is the EU exact
by ceeplusplus 4y ago
It won't eat into any revenues. In the Netherlands Apple charges 27% commission on any revenues paid into external payment systems [1]. And what is the EU exactly going to do - ban Apple from charging for access to their software APIs [2]? That seems like one step from banning charging for software as a whole.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/4/22917582/apple-netherlands-antitrust-27-percent-commission-alternative-in-app-payment-systems https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/4/22917582/apple-netherlands...
[2] Yes, APIs themselves are not copyrightable, but what developer is going to spend the resources to reimplement all of iOS' APIs, with no documentation of how the underlying hardware works?
- username_my1 4y agoLol shit loads of psps have super simple native SDKs: PayPal, stripe, adyen…. They’re all waiting for the day developers switch to their apis. And developers usually work with them over the web, they just didn’t do so on ios because of apple policy
- ceeplusplus 4y agoI don't mean payment providers, I mean Apple device APIs like HealthKit, WeatherKit, SwiftUI, CoreML, ARKit, etc. Nobody is stripping all that out (there aren't even real competitors for a lot of these things).