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jimh2 said: I’m still unclear what the great benefit of 5G is going to be other than faster. The vast majority of people use their phones for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and texting and the current infrastructure can more than accom…
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lkrupp said: As usual Apple will get hammered by the techie crowd but you know what? It doesn’t matter and it won’t affect iPhone sales one little bit no matter how much the critics howl and yodel. We saw this with OLED screens and many other…
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If I would apply the App Store guidelines to the brick and mortar Apple Store, Apple should give a 30% cut to the owner of building iso. asking to finance marketing and inventory costs.
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If I read this correctly, the existing Apple News service could also be impacted. But I could be wrong of course
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genovelle said: rob53 said: Qualcomm says it's the global leader in 5G development and was the only CDMA developer. Both will end up being standards so why should Qualcomm be able to force high patent payments on standard's patents? It…
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macplusplus said: Paid by whom? Buyers or advertisers? I have 3 sources of revenue: advertising (just a few procent), users buying an app (about 40%) , and associations buying a license for their members (around 55%). For all 3 sources th…
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genovelle said: cropr said: foodmetaphors said: Yes, the Android folk who notoriously spend big money on anything I am an app developer making all my apps available and iOS and Android. My current revenue split is 60% Androi…
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foodmetaphors said: Yes, the Android folk who notoriously spend big money on anything I am an app developer making all my apps available and iOS and Android. My current revenue split is 60% Android, 40% iOS. It can be related to the fact…
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If it was indeed discovered in January and it is only made public just recently, than Facebook will receive a serious fine from the EU because of the GDPR regulations. According to the GDPR regulations, this must be reported immediately.
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nht said: I don't care for Trump but we should be fining EU companies $94B in response since the EU has elected to target US tech companies since EU tech companies have been singularly uncompetitive vs US and China...and the EU is too chicken…
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gatorguy said: The EU has different competition laws than the US. "Google's platform or OS or ad service and if you don't like it use someone else's" isn't a defense as far as they are concerned. You could take that 3rd paragraph, substitut…
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minisu1980 said: cropr said: ArianneFeldry said: Developers are being treated badly? Developers are being treated like gods today, especially when compared to how they're treated when they had to sell their products in a box a…
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ArianneFeldry said: Developers are being treated badly? Developers are being treated like gods today, especially when compared to how they're treated when they had to sell their products in a box at stores. Even then, if you are a developer…
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applesauce007 said: I say ban the greedy bastards from the App Store and the platform all together. Just asked around on the work floor. More than half of the current iPhone users would consider to switch to Android if this would happen. S…
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minisu1980 said: cropr said: From an app developer point of view - I am an app developer - , the App Store guidelines are business wise a nightmare. All the risks are at your side. There are numerous cases where Apple changed the App St…
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dkhaley said: From my perspective, it should be a hard case for Spotify to win. Spotify has other distribution methods (i.e. a customer can sign up on their website and then download the app)Spotify chooses to use Apple's App Store as one of …
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jcs2305 said: Apple charged the same 30% before Apple Music even existed..correct? So Spotify was good with the 30% fee prior to Apple Music, but now that Apple has a competing service it illegally restraining competition. Interesting... …
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darkpaw said: Then the company wants users to have a choice of being able to pay subscriptions directly to Spotify through the App Store, yet without Apple's cut. Yeah, Apple should absorb all the costs for handling subscription payme…
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gatorguy said: Considering that this is in the EU which has different views on "unfair" competition than the US I would not discount the possibility of the EU Commission stepping in with a formal investigation on Apple's App Store. Whatever d…
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qwerty52 said: gatorguy said: qwerty52 said: gatorguy said: welshdog said: "and considering the money they're making on it, shouldn't I be getting a share of that? " We need either a Federal law or even better a Co…