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It's less "concerning" and more "flagrantly ridiculous". A company has to pay Apple half a euro for every executable download from the company's own website? I
by TulliusCicero 3y ago
It's less "concerning" and more "flagrantly ridiculous".
A company has to pay Apple half a euro for every executable download from the company's own website? If Microsoft tried this shit with Windows people would be apoplectic.
- __d 3y agoAnd yet, it's pretty common in commercial software and in other industries. For instance, my application uses a particular commercially-licensed software library. I have to pay a per-copy-sold royalty to the vendor. Or I write a video game for a console: I have to pay a percentage of my revenue to the console vendor. Or I use a particular algorithm (eg. an AV codec) and I have to pay patent royalties. So if your application uses Apple's provided frameworks, and they choose to charge you a license fee (discounted to zero for your first million sales), you're calling it "flagrantly ridiculous"? It's not: it's a wide-spread, standard practice. It might suck, sure. But hyperbole helps no-one here.
- TulliusCicero 3y ago> And yet, it's pretty common in commercial software and in other industries. Is it common in general purpose operating systems? Android? Linux? ChromeOS? Windows? Hell, MacOS? No? Then why did you bring it up?