Thank you, Brussels effect.
Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect
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Re: Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect
#32Sony and Nintendo stores are still closed I see lol
No doubt Nintendo was involved in the lobbying effort for this. Back in the 80s they successfully pushed to amend Japanese copyright law to ban game rentals.
Re: Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect
#33It seems we in EU got the worst implementation for apple malicious compliance. It should have been similar like this one Japan from the beginning.
How does Apple's implementation in Japan differ from their EU one? TFA doesn't have many details that I see.
Re: Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect
#34Sony and Nintendo stores are still closed I see lol
Sony and Nintendo only sell games. They don't gate access to banks, investments, health insurance, auto insurance, news, movies, social media, car control apps, appliance apps, grocery stores, e-commerce, etc... That's not to say Sony and Nintendo shouldn't be opened too but their impact is much smaller (game devs) than Apple (nearly all businesses)
If anything, that’s their excuse for keeping it locked.
“Mr hacker man can trick you to download an app and take all of grandmas money from the bank”, “North Korean hackers can tap into your baby cameras unless we gate the app installation process and charge 30%.”, etc.
Re: Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect
#35Nice. Someone is doing something. Apple's app store monopoly together with a 30% commission is a modern form of way-laying. Meanwhile Google is trying to go the opposite way with mandatory developer registration/verification. In the US we will likely let them. Who needs freedom if there is money to make (and Google is just making a fake security argument.) It shouldn't be that hard to do with my phone what I want, in…
> Apple's app store monopoly together with a 30% commission is a modern form of way-laying
Most of the revenue from the App Store is from games (often in-app purchases from "free to play" games), so it's not surprising that they charge the same 30% platform fee that Nintendo charges.
Epic would of course like to pay lower platform fees to Apple for Fortnite than they pay to Nintendo (or Google) for Fortnite.