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A fine is still necessary because (as per the original ruling), they should have never foisted their store on people seventeen years ago when they first launche
by clhodapp 1y ago
A fine is still necessary because (as per the original ruling), they should have never foisted their store on people seventeen years ago when they first launched it and certainly should not have done so when the court ordered them to stop four years ago.
If there isn't a fine, the message will be that it's fine to profit off of ignoring court orders until you face thread of contempt charges.
- simondotau 1y agoWhen Apple first launched the App Store, developers everywhere were praising Apple for offering such favourable terms.
- clhodapp 1y agoIf the terms were so great and the value to developers so high, it should definitely have been able to succeed in a competitive market, and need not have been forced on people.
- bigyabai 1y agoI think most of the praise was because before the App Store, you quite literally could not install software on iOS. If the Mac worked the same way, people would absent-mindedly praise Apple for it too.
- troupo 1y agoBecause it was better than anything existing at the time (fees in the few existing stores were up to 70%). That was 18 years ago. The times, they are a-changing