Apple’s Opening Arguments Slideshow [pdf]

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Post by wude935 » Thu, May 06, 2021, 12:19 AM UTC

Apple’s Opening Arguments Slideshow [pdf]
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Post by fbelzile » Thu, May 06, 2021, 1:27 AM UTC

Could you imagine if all telcos asked Apple for a 30% cut from all it's 30% cuts for network infrastructure maintenance?

Whether or not Apple likes it, iOS is critical infrastructure. If you want to make a device that a large portion of developed nations use, you're going to have to deal with the consequence of having people wanting it to be an open platform.

Operating systems are the infrastructure of the Internet. Just charge a fair fee for the App Store (based on usage/costs), allow alternate methods of side-loading apps, and of this will go away without substantive increases to privacy and security violations.

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Post by willswire » Thu, May 06, 2021, 1:50 AM UTC

The chart on page 16 blew me away. I know people give Apple a hard time for taking such a large cut - but it seems the be the industry standard.

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Post by tmccrary55 » Thu, May 06, 2021, 1:53 AM UTC

fbelzile wrote: post #2

Could you imagine if all telcos asked Apple for a 30% cut from all it's 30% cuts for network infrastructure maintenance? Whether or not Apple likes it, iOS is critical infrastructure. If you want to make a device that a large portion of developed nations use, you're going to have to deal with the consequence of having people wanting it to be an open platform. Operating systems are the infrastructure of the Internet.…

If they allow side loading, the market will take care of the rest.

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Post by unanswered » Thu, May 06, 2021, 2:59 AM UTC

willswire wrote: post #3

The chart on page 16 blew me away. I know people give Apple a hard time for taking such a large cut - but it seems the be the industry standard.

It's incredibly misleading because it simply omits every marketplace which takes a smaller cut, such as the Windows store's new 0% cut.

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Post by astlouis44 » Thu, May 06, 2021, 3:43 AM UTC

The last slide is enough to make one laugh out loud. Apple is crippling WebGL/WASM/PWA's and they know it. If they properly supported these incredible web technologies properly, it would enable an alternative path to distributing games/apps outside the App Store and it would provide meaningful competition, albeit eating into Apple's precious walled garden revenue generating machine significantly...