Imagine being Epic and charging $20 to play as The Weekend and complaining about paying Apple 30%.
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Epic Games Plans for Alternative App Marketplace in EU as Apple Reinstates Developer Account
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Imagine being Epic and charging $20 to play as The Weekend and complaining about paying Apple 30%.
They have 126 million monthly users. I would hardly call that "dying".
As for the money, oh there's no question they lost billions they would have made otherwise.
So what? Your entire argument is for the sake of tradition? The point is that if it works on one system then it will work on another.
Imagine if Tim Sweeny had not been a total dick and tried to redirect purchased outside of Apple and create an entire video making fun of Apple how big those monthly users would still be?
You are missing the point. Epic doesn’t want to sell on Apple’s store. They want to set up their own store and handle all the costs and downloads on their own. Apple won’t let them. Epic and others are not asking Apple to bear all the costs. They want to have their own stores and bear the costs themselves.
Mac and iPhone are two totally different experiences. One has always been 'open' and the other is built around being a 'locked' garden.
I would never consider getting my Mother an iMac or MacBook, but she does have an iPad and iPhone because it's easy to use. In no world would I ever get her an Android as that whole thing is a fragmented mess.
Yes, Epic wants to make 100% of the money using Apples APIs, tools and billions of customers and not pay Apple a penny to do that. I also would like to sell stuff inside of Target but somehow I don't think they would allow me too. Why is that?
You say it like it's a bad thing. The victories were insufficient, but Epic very much did this for all developers, not just themselves. As a private company, they have the full right to do whatever they want (within the constraints of the law, of course) whether it's the best business plan or not.
I think people tend to forget that companies are made up of people, and that those people come and go. I'm sure such altruism caused a lot of people to decide they wanted to join Epic. And a lot of people had plans to leave Epic to smaller studios, or side projects, or ambitions to start a new company, and so they saw that their plans outside Epic would benefit from such moves from Epic.
in case of Epic, they wanted to host elsewhere and have the option to pay elsewhere. Censorship Apple cut them and blocked their account. Thats monopoly behaviour. Thank god for EU
I have no problem with Microsoft doing that as long as it was known before I bought the computer system.
In fact, I wished they did it!
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I would have no problem with that if all the software outside the Mac App Store went to the Mac App Store.
Just forget it, dude. These people remind me of the folks who drive electric cars but don’t pay for the roads because they don’t use gas (and pay a gas tax for maintenance).
I find it hard to believe that you don’t get this and that you aren’t just arguing about this because you are bored.
You are right that Target won’t just let you sell stuff in their stores. But they also can’t keep you for renting the building next to their stores and selling stuff there. That is what Apple is doing. They don’t just dictate terms for selling in their store. They actively prevent others from setting up their own stores.
Seriously, do you not see and understand the difference?
We know. The iPhone has ALWAYS been broken like that. It needs to be fixed.
And if Apple won't do it themselves, then governments need to force them to.
If it was that small a part then Apple would just pull out of Europe altogether
Forget the alternative app store, with their dev account back when can the Mac version return?
No, it is not. It is kicking the customer out of the restaurant when they don’t wear a shirt or behave badly
I really think you have no idea what you are talking about. If an sideloaded app on iOS could do any damage it would be completely Apple's fault. On a modern macOS you can't even install a kernel extension without reboot and reducing the security settings. And that would be the only way to brick something. But maybe iOS is so insecure that any app sideloaded can load any code with kernel priviledges and take over the OS. That would be funny. It would also bankrupt Apple, which wouldn't be funny.
Let's use the epic store as an example. Would epic allow me to just set up shop and sell whatever I liked in the epic store without me paying them anything? I don't think so. How about the playstation store or the xbox store?
No epic broke the developer contract they had with apple. apple gave them notice to change it and epic refused. apple had the right to kick them.
yes they did but thats a bit non competitive behaviour. You can put anything int T&C but that doesn't mean that its all right.
Hence why EU stepped in and stopped this monopolistic behaviour. Now we will all benefit
Hence why EU stepped in and stopped this monopolistic behaviour. Now we will all benefit
Because Epic was of the opinion that this developer contract was invalid, the courts disagreed. Case closed. Now, Epic wants to attempt to create their own store, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. Why do so many people get emotional about this?