Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store
Just a moment...
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/390943
Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.
Imagine if Microsoft required all Software developers to give them 30% of their income or be banned from Windows
This is nothing but pure extortion.
Thank god for the EU, which forced Apple to back down:
Fortnite, one of the world's biggest video games, is available as an iPhone app for the first time in four years. However, it will only be available to players in the European Union. This is because EU law requires Apple to allow third-party app stores on its devices - other parts of the world do not have comparable legislation. The game was removed from the App Store in 2020 following a payments row between Apple and Epic.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70j5rx72yvo
As for canadians/americans, they are in jail.
Imagine your friend in Europe sends you a phone invite to play .
-"Oh. I'm sorry but I am not allowed to do that 😢"
The only reason these things haven’t happened is that Microsoft was banned from doing them back in the 90s. They absolutely wanted to require a Microsoft Account (then called a Passport) in Windows XP. The ban was in place until just after Windows 7 came out.
Blame the government for doing nothing to protect consumers since 1999.
Apple doesn’t ban Mac users from downloading software outside the App Store.
Microsoft bans Xbox users from downloading unlicensed software.
That this completely true observation has twice the downvotes than upvotes highlights this community’s views on Apple.
The Xbox doesn't have the majority of the gaming market.
The smartphone market is basically a duopoly.
Microsoft bans Xbox users from downloading unlicensed software.
I'm curious what that would even look like. The only thing you can install on an Xbox is Xbox games, where are you getting the Xbox games from if not the official publisher?
Thank god for the EU, which forced Apple to back down:
As for canadians/americans, they are in jail.
This isn't the EU, this is the US. Epic Games will be back in the App Store in US next week.
Device lock-in is a symptom of a wider issue: the users are not in control of their computing. Charging for services is fine but a company deciding what you are allowed to do with your own property is unjust.
Change their post to say Microsoft's old phone brand OS instead of desktop Windows and what changes? You don't need to pick an equivalent to highlight a single aspect for comparison when arguing for a position.
There's no need to get offended. Replace MS with MacOS and the point stands.
Now do Xbox, Nintendo, and PS5 stores.
Damn. Epic's on a roll in my news feed this morning.
Tim Sweeney you mean?
Isn't this charging model the same reason Kindle stopped allowing in app purchases? I thought they had said it was a Google play store thing though. Is Google doing it too or is there pricing something different?
Yep, Apple forces all purchases through in app payment for any digital goods.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250428085353/https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Yep, same reason you can't buy anything on Amazon Prime TV either.
Haha, get fucked.
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