> Developers constantly making the claim that the 30% is too onerous This one is honestly difficult to respond to. I encourage you to donate 30% of your next p

> Developers constantly making the claim that the 30% is too onerous This one is honestly difficult to respond to. I encourage you to donate 30% of your next paycheck to charity. It would be a good deed and would illustrate for you how much 30% is in a better way than I ever could. > Please point to any proof that the future would be this way Another stumper. I don't usually claim to have proof about the future. I suppose you'll just have to use common sense here. > Instead, android shows that these changes are potentially more user hostile This I just find confusing. Where is the hostility in offering users choice? If your whole point is that nobody would use a 3rd-party app store, then why does this regulation even concern you in the first place? You don't have to use one! Just stick to the App Store and let other people do what they want, then thank them for providing the competition that ends up forcing Apple to lower their fees. > Developers pretend its about making things better for users when its about making more money for them. Actually, it's about competition, which is indeed something long considered essential to a healthy economy. > My friend, they are sitting still _now_, when supposedly GDPR was to fix all this. Ok, I'll come clean. I work for a big tech company. We had to overhaul a ton of services to comply with GDPR and I honestly believe our customers are better off because of it. GDPR did not magically fix all the problems in tech, but it's a big improvement. > the one platform that pretends to care about user privacy This level of cynicism is just so difficult to navigate. Are you saying Apple can or cannot be trusted? I much prefer to enable fair competition so that the best platform can actually emerge. Whether that's Apple or not, if users value privacy and the market is fair, they will be able to find it.