So, they do have an incentive to let the iTunes fraud continue. Seems like a couple times a year one of my families accounts is hacked, they spend $100s and we have to dispute. We get the money back but it's costly to the devs at 30%
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#112It’s a mess. In many ways, the App Store is nothing but trouble for developers.
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#113Re: When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]
#114App stores need heavy regulations. It's not only Apple but Google and even steam to a small extent. Apple is of course the biggest offender as they heavily guard their monopoly with code signing enforcement. This shouldn't have been legal. They are the very definitions of predatory competition squashing monopolies.
App stores need competition, not regulation.
In situations where competition is not possible, we need to resort to regulation.
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#115Re: When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]
#116App stores need heavy regulations. It's not only Apple but Google and even steam to a small extent. Apple is of course the biggest offender as they heavily guard their monopoly with code signing enforcement. This shouldn't have been legal. They are the very definitions of predatory competition squashing monopolies.
App stores need competition, not regulation.
In this case the economic conditions are a monopoly so competition is impossible. That's why regulations exist, they fix market failures.
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#117I don't understand something here.. let's say I sold an app to someone for $100. 1. Someone pays me $100. 2. Apple takes 30%, so I only get $70. 3. Customer asks for refund and gets back $100. 4. Apple takes back the $70 from me. If Apple was skimming 30% off from the start, how does that affect me during a refund?
I am not a developer but I presume that Apple doesn't pay you every single time someone buys your app. So they would take the extra $30 out of your balance with them. Or, if there is no balance they will just put you into negative balance so that the next time you sell a $100 app you will only get $40 instead of $70.
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#118Re: When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]
#119App stores need heavy regulations. It's not only Apple but Google and even steam to a small extent. Apple is of course the biggest offender as they heavily guard their monopoly with code signing enforcement. This shouldn't have been legal. They are the very definitions of predatory competition squashing monopolies.
App stores need competition, not regulation.
A positive aspect of Apple’s model is that it’s impossible for a malicious ad to trick an unsuspecting user into sideloading malware on their device.
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#120Previous story from 2009: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/03/app-store-refunds-wi...