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aderutter said: Spotify causing mischief - they knew this would happen and didn’t accept the terms as they don’t want to pay Apple anything, let alone up to 27%. Apple are in the right here, the DMA does not preclude Apple (or Google) from …
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rob53 said: As I've said many times before, people have plenty of choices on what products they want to buy. If you don't like Apple's way of doing things go with an Android platform or demand a company in the EU to build a new platform. Just…
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If one needs a PR heavyweight to influence the EU, he/she should be located in Brussels. A person located in London won't be taken seriously by the EU commission and EU parliament. This sounds like influencing the US government from Mexico City
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retrogusto said: I may be wrong, but it seems like so many of these legal issues would be resolved if Apple offered a version of the iPhone hardware for sale without any OS installed, at a higher price that reflected the fact that the in-app …
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omasou said: libertymatters said: A maze of red tape to make it prohibitive. An alternative app store on macOS requires no interaction or input from Apple at all. An example is MacPorts. The real answer here is customers demanding a…
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blastdoor said: And the iPhone has a much lower market share than android in Europe, too. If apple’s HQ were in Paris I bet the EU would treat them very differently. Just for information. AB Inbev, the world largest brewer, received in…
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jas99 said: It will be interesting to see what the security implications of this become. Will European iPhones become infected with malware and distribute that malware throughout the world via messages and email and…? Being a developer I wou…
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I am owning an app development and the company has developed 7 apps for the App Store. Giving you some figures. The initial development of a single app costs between $50K and $100K. Maintaining an app costs about $10K per year. 5 of my apps were…
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I think the kickstart of 5G has very little to do with the availability of the handsets, but much more with the global availability with the 5G network infrestructure. Rolling out a nation wide 5G network is much more challenging (and costly) than…
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jimh2 said: PWA sounds like JAVA. Close but odd enough to not look right or work great. I'll stick to native apps only. It is the choice of the developer to offer a PWA or a native app. Being a developer myself there are some good reason…
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rorschachai said: What a joke. Apple would have to develop an entirely new framework to allow third parties to support the functionality using their own apps and browser engines. I don't think so. I am almost 100% sure that the framew…
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chasm said: Make no mistake about what Apple is saying here. The bottom line on this from a user’s perspective is simple: Developers would LOVE to make more money collecting lots of extra data about users and selling that data to entities lik…
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Spencer314 said: What's less surprising than the fact that fake apps can make it through Apple's overwhelmed review process is the fact that Apple does such a poor job of taking them down when they are reported. You would think that fake apps…
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tht said: The hard part is the marketing and engineering. That's 99.9% of the job, not the whatever is in the patent. It is really doubtful any of that can be stolen. Any company that productizes an idea spends the same amount of resources on th…
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chasm said: People who choose WhatsApp — and many millions of people do — are giving Meta/FaceBook your data (maybe — or maybe not — the content of your messages, but lots and lots of other data) to sell to advertisers and media manipulators.…
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JaiOh81 said: chelin said: aldanno said: Just imagine if Circle K was forced to carry every brand candy, soda and beer. Also imagine they weren't free to mark-up their product prices as they saw fit! No one is asking the Apple R…
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Honkers said: cropr said: A recent development has been to add basic Android Auto functionality to the car OS system (Volvo OS in this case). Google has to do a lot of work to embed this Android functionality in the car OS. Google calls…
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22july2013 said: My current Honda forces me to manually alternate, every day, between my Carplay ecosystem and my Honda ecosystem. That's a hard fail. I don't want that. Unless I'm reading it wrong, Volvo wants to support CarPlay/Android but …
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jimh2 said: Those using the 3rd party app stores for their products will quickly find out 99.99% of iPhone users will never venture over there to hand out the credit card and personal information to another company. They may well find out the…
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Calvin_Hobbes said: "As it turns out, Spotify is mostly not subject to Apple's 30% commission either. After the first year of a subscription, Apple's fees drop to 15%." oh. Well that seems more than fair. And while we're on the topic of co…