So many people believe that large margins cannot possibly be sustained without a monopoly.
Latest iPhone market share figures I can find: US - 55%, Worldwide - 14%. You cannot, unless you are totally ignorant or shameless or both, claim that the iPhone is anywhere close to being a monopoly.
Instead of celebrating that a US company has the chops to design (yeah, not assemble) a product that is so good that despite intense competition, customers are willing to pay a premium price for it, some people tear it down for achieving success the honest way: by offering a great product.
Looking forward to the suits against Burger King for its monopoly on the Whopper, and McDonald's for its Big Mac. And their menus and suppliers. I mean, why can't someone make them offer sushi? Or place an independent developer's chef's taco truck in the parking lot? We demand access to their customer base so we can offer the customer choice!
...glad the judge wasn't having it. Hope it sticks.
Also Target should be allowed to put up signs inside Walmart telling customers that these items are cheaper in their store and they should just walk out and drive to Target instead.
I don’t know where the public determined that using an off-site provider avails the developer of paying Apple’s fees. The fees are not from the payment itself, that would be ridiculous. Those are developer fees owed to the platform hosting the app, that pay for the review process. Free apps bypass the typical 30% fee for the app sale, so Apple then tacks that same fee onto in-app purchases. If the developer throws a button in an app to PayPal, they don’t suddenly not owe Apple any money just because of where the transaction was made. It’s literally written into the contract. One of the points of this case was whether that was legal, and Apple won that their contract with developers is completely legal, and they have to right to ban Epic’s account, on the matter of the violation alone, even if they pay the money owed to Apple. The public is turning on Epic, but this is now completely out of their hands – Apple has 100% of the say on whether Fortnite can ever return to the app store. They can choose to permanently ban Epic’s developer account from the iOS platform. That has more than just Fortnite keep in mind, that also has a chilling effect on whether Epic can deliver tools to game developers for their Unreal Engine on iOS. Epic bet the farm on this ruling and lost, and have put a lot of their business in jeopardy right now; and instead of begging forgiveness for the reinstatement of their developer rights, they are choosing to appeal. Literally spitting in Apple’s face. I will tell you right now, if they go forward with this appeal and lose, or the court decides not to pick up this case because they agree with the lower court’s ruling – Apple will never allow Epic back on iOS.
In short, Apple is now in a position to completely end Epic Mobile as we know it , and that would likely finish off Epic, Epic backers can all thank Tim Sweenie. What is astounding , is , knowing al this , Tim Weenie still filed an appeal! This is the time to beg to save your company!!
Epic board should cal an emergency meeting and remove Tim Sweenie ASAP to save the company
If Epic adheres to the contract, they have to be let back into the App Store - if Apple doesn't do so, Epic can simply sue again - this time for discrimination - and it would be a pretty open and shut case in Epic's favor.
Sounds like someone didn't read the judge's decision at all. It states, quite clearly, that Apple doesn't have to let Epic back into the App Store for any reason they choose.
It's kind of crazy that any of these ideas were ever in doubt:
3. This isn't just about the welfare of developers, consumers also matter
I don't remember anyone, from the judge in the case to Congress, making consumers feel like they matter or that they have a say in this. We have all voted with our wallets, overwhelmingly, that we like the way the App Store works.
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So many people believe that large margins cannot possibly be sustained without a monopoly.
Latest iPhone market share figures I can find: US - 55%, Worldwide - 14%. You cannot, unless you are totally ignorant or shameless or both, claim that the iPhone is anywhere close to being a monopoly.
Instead of celebrating that a US company has the chops to design (yeah, not assemble) a product that is so good that despite intense competition, customers are willing to pay a premium price for it, some people tear it down for achieving success the honest way: by offering a great product.