Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules
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#2"Apple holds app providers ransom like the Mafia," claims Matthias Pfau, CEO and cofounder of Tuta, an encrypted email provider. The tech giant treats iPhones as its territory, Pfau complains, tightly controlling developers’ access before taking a chunk of their profits. "Anyone wanting to provide an iOS app must pay a ransom to Apple; there’s no way around it."
What can developers do other than agree to Apple's demands if they want to publish iOS apps?
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#3Apple's seeking to comply with the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law in order to maintain their ability to extract rents from the App Store. It's user-hostile (particularly given that they've now hobbled PWAs) but not surprising. Their behavior won't change without additional regulatory action.
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#4They remove pwas in latest ios beta(only in the EU) they are evil
Re: Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules
#5Apple's seeking to comply with the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law in order to maintain their ability to extract rents from the App Store. It's user-hostile (particularly given that they've now hobbled PWAs) but not surprising. Their behavior won't change without additional regulatory action.
In the US, laws are taken as very literal, and any technicality that can be exploited usually will be. In Europe, they’re far more focused on the spirit of the law and don’t put up with games.
On one hand it seems like Apple is trying to take a US style approach, but on the other they must have European lawyers on staff explaining how that won’t work.
One might conclude that it’s a calculated risk, or a stalling tactic to extract a few more years of revenue from the current model while waiting for things to play out in the courts.
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#6They remove pwas in latest ios beta(only in the EU) they are evil
Wait, is this confirmed that it's removed only in the EU? I've seen "reports" on Twitter (never gonna call it X) but nothing official.
Re: Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules
#7Apple's seeking to comply with the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law in order to maintain their ability to extract rents from the App Store. It's user-hostile (particularly given that they've now hobbled PWAs) but not surprising. Their behavior won't change without additional regulatory action.
In the US, laws are taken as very literal, and any technicality that can be exploited usually will be. In Europe, they’re far more focused on the spirit of the law and don’t put up with games. On one hand it seems like Apple is trying to take a US style approach, but on the other they must have European lawyers on staff explaining how that won’t work. One might conclude that it’s a calculated risk, or a stalling tact…
Fair view vs. strict constructionism.
Re: Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules
#8Apple's seeking to comply with the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law in order to maintain their ability to extract rents from the App Store. It's user-hostile (particularly given that they've now hobbled PWAs) but not surprising. Their behavior won't change without additional regulatory action.
In the US, laws are taken as very literal, and any technicality that can be exploited usually will be. In Europe, they’re far more focused on the spirit of the law and don’t put up with games. On one hand it seems like Apple is trying to take a US style approach, but on the other they must have European lawyers on staff explaining how that won’t work. One might conclude that it’s a calculated risk, or a stalling tact…
I think they're just too confident that their US approach will work. Same thing happened with Facebook, they got a huge fine for it.
Re: Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules
#9They remove pwas in latest ios beta(only in the EU) they are evil
Wait, is this confirmed that it's removed only in the EU? I've seen "reports" on Twitter (never gonna call it X) but nothing official.
Officially they haven't confirmed anything(employees deny to comment) but it seems intentional in all aspects and bug report is silent
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#10All companies by simply reaching a certain scale and size -- are just by default becoming a monopoly. Since Apple is the biggest company in the world it's inescapable they will face these accusations even if they fairly earned their way in to this position the right thing is to still stop them because a monopoly is always a bad thing for consumers.