Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax
Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax
Spotify is calling Apple’s latest changes “outrageous.”
I know it’s the Verge and all but really, using “big mad” in a headline?
Gotta speak the language of the people I guess
Instant no-read
better than the newspeak shit other websites are pulling.
So either app developers need to either stick to Apple's proprietary payment platform, or they must...
- Find their own alternative payment processor
- Pay fees to the alternative
- Shuttle data to Apple about how much they were paid in the alternative processor
- Receive an extra bill from Apple for the privilege of having not used Apple services
This is Mafia-esque. It guarantees Apple will always be the cheapest option, unless they find an alternative that costs them pretty much nothing.
How is that extra fee not getting struck down by courts? Developers already paid the fee to be on the app store.
No one has brought an action regarding it, yet. That's all.
This structure was literally offered by the judge in the Epic case. The judge said that Apple is entitled to the fees whether the transactions are completed by Apple or not as long as they originated on the platform that Apple maintains and grows.
It's a commission for access to a lucrative market that Apple created. Apple gives away the developer tools and charges an extremely modest annual App Store fee, which also covers the review process and hosting. It's been common for platform creators to charge third-party developers in some capacity for many decades. Some do it by charging high costs for the developer tools, others by charging a commission based on sales. I don't think any strategy is necessarily better or worse than the other on a legal or moral basis; they're just business decisions. Previously Apple has combined the commission and payment processing costs into one fee. Apple made a decision on what they wanted to offer developers on that platform and Epic wasn't satisfied with it. They got a court to agree on what is ultimately a minor technical point in how Apple's deal is packaged so Apple is offering an alternative that they don't want to but complies with the law. It's, ultimately, a worse deal for the developer. Developers don't have a right to demand that some arbitrary percentage is the right one, tough. Apple offered a deal: take it or leave it. Developers are perfectly free to leave it.
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at least they allow you to use other app stores or even download them directly from the app developer.
The bigger one is that the base system is still open source. That ensures a baseline of freedom. Google services are so intertwined that it's hardly possible to really live without but it is. Imagine a de-appled iPhone.
big mad
Lol
insta-downvote.
Yep.
I wonder how this interacts with their DMA compliance. This might be fine for the US court that ruled in the Epic case, but the EU law was made to prevent exactly this.
That's why we all should rally behind web apps. Web apps & PWA are truly platform independent way of producing apps & games
Apple forces all browsers on iOS to use Safari Web views, and Safari has the worst web bugs. I wouldn't be surprised if that was on purpose.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a statement to The Verge, Spotify spokesperson Jeanne Moran says that the new 27 percent tax on alternative payment methods shows that Apple “will stop at nothing to protect the profits they exact on the backs of developers and consumers under their app store monopoly.”
The company updated its App Store policies to comply with a court order handed down as part of the Epic v. Apple ruling.
The change lets developers in the US link to alternative payment methods, but only if they shell out a 27 percent commission for each purchase made outside the App Store.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was one of the first to call out Apple’s changes as “anticompetitive,” adding the App Store policy “totally undermines” the court order.
“Apple’s approach to ‘compliance’ with the District Court’s decision will not benefit developers and consumers,” Rick VanMeter, the executive director of the CAF, said in a statement.
“These changes do nothing to enhance consumer choice” or to “lower prices for in-app purchases or inject competition into Apple’s walled garden.”
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Lol I think apple should charge more..its a private company and charge any amount as it wish. Also, a great opportunity for devs to band together and start an app store for apple phones. Once it reaches to a point where there are less apps on the store and users stop buying iphone,everything will change. Less fees, apps from other stores can be installed and many more perks.
unlike android i don't think it's possible to install another app store (iPhone user please confirm)