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Apple is placing warnings on EU apps that don't use App Store payments
- jqpabc123 1y agoSo in other words, they're flagging apps which cost less by virtue of not paying the Apple gateway tax. How could this possibly go wrong?
- redczar 1y agoWhy would the apps cost significantly less? I think you don’t understand pricing power. You’ll get a slight discount as a means of enticing you away from the app store but you’ll give up an easy way to control subscriptions or prevent companies from storing your payment information. I’ll stick to the app store.
- jqpabc123 1y agoI think you don’t understand pricing power. Typical fees for processing a payment are 2% or less. Apple charges 30%.
- redczar 1y agoIf people are willing to pay $x for a product then you you don’t charge 30% less for it just because your costs have gone down. You should read up about pricing power.
- jqpabc123 1y agoIf people are willing to pay $x And if they are not? Charging less can expand the market and lead to increased sales at the expense of your competition. Avoiding Apples 30% cut gives vendors the opportunity to make their own decision.
- redczar 1y agoYou are naive if you think apps will go down in price more than a small amount as a result of this.
- retskrad 1y agoApple’s App Store fees are to Apple what Search is to Google: a license to print money. On the plus side, this allows Apple to invest in extremely expensive, high precision hardware that other companies can’t afford, and it enables Google to fund R&D that led to breakthroughs like the Transformer architecture. But on the flip side, these companies also crush competition and stifle innovation in other areas. One could argue either way about whether these huge corporations are doing more good than harm or vice versa.
- beardyw 1y agoSeems like buying an Apple phone is entering into an abusive relationship.