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Apple faces 'strong action' if App Store changes fall short, EU's Breton says

https:// www.reuters.com /technology/apple-faces-strong-action-if-app-store-changes-fall-short-eus-breton-says-2024-01-26/

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/8419734

Apple faces 'strong action' if App Store changes fall short, EU's Breton says

Technology @lemmy.world Apple faces 'strong action' if App Store changes fall short, EU's Breton says

Apple @lemmy.world Apple faces 'strong action' if App Store changes fall short, EU's Breton says

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The announced changes sound like retaliation. Considering Apple is acting like a sovereign state by collecting taxes from what it perceives as its subjects it looks suspiciously like an act of war.

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- Full access to NFC, bring your own browser engine, zero fees on third party stores, the changes are genuinely positive. What makes you say they feel like “retaliation”?
  
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  See the core tech fee for developers that want the new terms. It's not zero fees on third party stores, it's 50 cents /month per install over 1 million users.
  
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- Not sure what you mean, the announced changes are pretty much the best thing ever to happen to the Apple eco-system. The only bad part about them is they're restricted to EU.
  
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  Have you seen the €0.50 "core tech fee" per app installation/year Apple wants to charge even if the app is installed from a 3rd party store? An app with 2 million users will be expected to pay 41000€ a month, and one with 10 million around 375000€ every single month, and this without counting the transaction fee.
  
  Of course, if you comply with Apple's feudal claims then you can stay stuck in the App Store and pay a 30% sales tax (that unlike sales taxes from non-mafia institutions you aren't allowed to pass to the customers, because obviously non-apple users also have to subsidize Apple users) like a good peasant, they "generously" wave the new fee.
  
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  Being restricted to only the iPhone, not e.g. the iPad those liberations are all pretty useless if you are invested in the ecosystem.
  
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Let's hope they get fined into oblivion for this obviously malicious compliance

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As they should. Apple users worldwide are clearly unhappy with the way Apple is handling this. They’re a bit of a laughing stock right now.

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- Not a single Apple user has complained about this in my circles. Many non-EU are envious though.
  
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  IRL, I agree. No one with an iPhone has even brought this up. I only hear about it from users online
  
  I live in the EU with an iPhone. While I do think Apple should just cut the crap and allow side-loading, the only thing I had personally wanted it for on iPhone was access to emulation and better alternative gaming markets. However, I bought a steam deck last month and lost the need for any of that.
  
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