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I mean, they are a company, what did you expect? Nonprofits are exempted from the fees, so an open-source app store could be possible. Win-win for everyone (e
by kaba0 3y ago
I mean, they are a company, what did you expect?
Nonprofits are exempted from the fees, so an open-source app store could be possible.
Win-win for everyone (except other companies, but isn’t that the point of capitalism?)
- layer8 3y agoIt means that you have to set up a nonprofit for your weekend hobby project. The reality is rather that the hobby project is unlikely to happen due to this. And in Europe there is a slightly different perspective on companies and capitalism. “Making money” is not taken as a blanket justification for anything. Companies have social responsibilities, and there is a balancing of company and consumer interests.
- turquoisevar 3y agoHeck of a weekend hobby project if it manages to pull in over 1M unique installs on iPhones in the EU alone. Might want to make it your day job in that case.
- kaba0 3y agoA single nonprofit can create an alternative app store, and distribute any open-source app from within - this is pretty much how f-droid works on android. I just don’t see how is it a negative change — eu citizens get more choices, while the eu laws won’t be turned against apple itself (a metastore would benefit no one, but meta).
- layer8 3y agoThe fee is payed by the app developer, not the third-party app store, and thus the app developer would have to be a nonprofit. Unless you want to relinquish control over your app to the third-party app store and make them the official “developer”. But third-party app stores also wouldn’t want to become liable for your app.