So because you bought a piece of hardware, Apple is required to provide free software... forever?
That's like saying if I build you a house, I should also pay your electric bill... forever.
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Apple's App Store, Safari, and iOS Officially Designated 'Gatekeepers' in EU
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So because you bought a piece of hardware, Apple is required to provide free software... forever?
That's like saying if I build you a house, I should also pay your electric bill... forever.
I’ll have you know I have coffee mugs from dozens of your lovely cities 🤪
Simple xcode will now cost 5% of a company's annual revenue. Don't want to pay you don't have a iPhone app anymore.
Or, when third party app stores are allowed, you could just keep downloading from the Apple App Store and not worry about anything. Your argument is a total logical fail and an attempt to spread FUD. Third party app stores and "dodgy websites" have absolutely no effect on your device's security if you don't use them. Wow, imagine that!Hopefully this will not effect UK users, as we left the EU, don't include me in this nonesense......
If I wanted an unsecure phone with software downloaded from dodgy websites I would get Android.....
The EU is trying to give you more freedom by trouncing on someone else's. That is the definition of socialism.
A person or company should never be forced to provide anything for free.
I never said anything about free software. Where are you getting that?
No, it's not like that at all.
No if you build me a house you let me buy my electricity from anyone I choose
This is the sort of thing that makes me wish Apple and Google would get together and tell the EU "screw that, we're just not going to sell our hardware in the EU." I suspect the actual customers in the EU would burn the government buildings down with the lawmakers still in them.
Public funding of healthcare is certainly limited to Medicare, Medicaid and the VA for the most part. I was just pointing out that public hospitals exist in the US.
I'm all for expanding publicly funded healthcare.
The amount of profit is irrelevant. Forcing someone, or a company, to provide a service, for free, is unethical and is theft.
This entire situation is more like: Google and Apple are making too much money. NOT FAIR (whine whine). So let's all vote to tax them so they make, what we feel, is an acceptable amount of profit.
does using technology mean i have to lick timmy's boot?
My state, NY, has no for-profit hospitals. Good to know.Around 950. That's around 20% of hospitals. They're not exactly rare.
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Lol this is also regulated in the DMA.
Anyway, there are plenty of alternatives to build an App without Xcode, nothing fancy. Just like you can compile an Unreal iOS game on Windows, without owning a Mac or Xcode.
What is being provided for free?
Hardly. If anything, more app stores and open platforms = more sales = more tax revenue.
Just for reference, I worked at Waldenbooks in college, a former national bookstore chain. Their take was 50% off the cover price. So if you paid $30 for a book, they kept $15. So to me 30% doesn’t seem unreasonable but that’s just my opinion.
And here in the States, they let employees checkout hardcovers they resold...Never quite got that one
True, but individual freedom should be greater than corporate freedom, by a large margin...and corporations should never be treated, legally or otherwise, as persons.
That said, you bought the device; it was not free. At the end of its serviceable life, it should be an open-book to the person who bought it.
You don't seem to understand how non-profit works. I'm not saying every business should be non-profit. Just that the model works if your goal is to support the company and not worry about profits.
1. Hospital charges for a service.
2. Hospital gets paid for said service.
3. Hospital takes money it got paid and pays its employees and vendors.
4. Any money left over goes back into the system.
5. If we don't make a surplus, we have a problem.
No Commies allowed.
I fear it could become the norm. Meta launched Threads everywhere but in the EU. If they still manage to succeed without EU users, it could set a precedent. EU market isn't as huge as people pretend.
Is there any specific languate in the DMA that would prevent Apple from requiring that all third-party apps, regardless of whether they are sideloaded or purchased through a third-party app store, be subject to the same requirements (including review) and fees that they are now?
No they aren’t, they are being told to allow other app stores on iOS.
Almost 60% of US hospitals are private not-for-profit. I work in a medium sized city with an overly large and advanced healthcare and healthcare research system. There are no for-profit hospital facilities in this city or county.
I'm employed by the biggest not-for-profit research/teaching hospital in this region, and I get paid handsomely for it. We still charge just as much everyone else.