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False equivalence - a manual gearstick complicates the design of the car, making each unit cost more, while allowing sideloading is a one-time development cost
by 76SlashDolphin 2y ago
False equivalence - a manual gearstick complicates the design of the car, making each unit cost more, while allowing sideloading is a one-time development cost with marginal maintenance costs. Also my car manufacturer doesn't get a 30% cut every time I fuel up because I use an automatic transmission. If it were like that I can assure you there would be a much bigger uproar than in this sideloading debate.
- shuckles 2y agoIt's hard to imagine how a working developer can believe that maintaining a platform where anyone can do anything has only upfront fixed costs. Apple spent about 4 years trying to change the contract of the pasteboard API to resolve unwanted data access concerns.
- user_7832 2y ago> It's hard to imagine how a working developer can believe that maintaining a platform where anyone can do anything has only upfront fixed costs. Isn't that how Google Play Store works? $25 once, for life. Presumably revenue is from IAPs and ads.
- shuckles 2y agoThe Play Store has similar fees for IAP and sales as Apple. When people complain about Apple charging developers, it’s not about the $100 annual cost of the developer program.
- talldayo 2y agoThey aren't complaining about the 30% either; they simply want a way to compete with what the App Store charges for. Android provides that, iOS does not.
- robertlagrant 2y agoThere are people who complain about the 30% as well. As soon as the Microsoft Store was fully dead, Microsoft started saying that 30% for a store was too high.
- shuckles 2y agoiOS does provide that, as Spotify has built a huge business on iOS while paying Apple nothing.