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  • Study defends Apple's App Store commission rates

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    tehabe said:
    The study missed the point completely, it is not about a comparison between Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store but how certain services are treated on the App Store it self. Especially when you have a service by Apple and a service by a third party. To offer their service to iOS users services like Spotify or Netflix has to play by the rules of a company which also offers those services. The same is true for Google's Play Store btw. And I think Apple and Google should be forced to equal treatment of those services on their platform.
    You mean, Apple should take a 30% cut on the services they sell through their apps? Or from the selling price? 
    Oh, wait...
    watto_cobra

  • Study defends Apple's App Store commission rates

    wonkothesanewonkothesane
    Thank you. Can we now move on please and spend effort on real abuse of market power? 
    And who performs "real abuse of market power" pray tell?
    Why? I my statement is not about “somewhere there must be someone guilty but I will not tell who it is”. It is about my conviction that Apple tends to be the standard go-to target implying evil just because they are successful and that bow there is some independent study corroborating what many developers here stated already. So time to move on, no?

    regarding antitrust candidates: how about Continental Automotive Korea? Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc.,? Martinair N.V. ? Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute LLC?
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  • Study defends Apple's App Store commission rates

    wonkothesanewonkothesane
    Thank you. Can we now move on please and spend effort on real abuse of market power? 
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  • Apple may shift to single-band 5G on 2021 'iPhone 13' lineup

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    GeorgeBMac said:
    mattinoz said:
    MplsP said:
    This would be incredibly stupid, but the general public is so uninformed about 5G that Apple may do it.

    mmWave 5G has horrible penetration and coverage and the cell phone companies have come right out and said it will never extend beyond densely populated metro areas. A while ago Verizon finally published detailed 5G coverage maps and it's very telling - 5G coverage in Chicago was limited to the streets only in the downtown area. A phone with 5G capability limited to mmWave would be useless to anyone who doesn't live in such an area and useless to those people if they were inside.

    The general public also gets that 4G means their phone is fast enough most of the time......
    100 some years ago people said the same about horses.
    Isn’t that’s a bit comparing apples and oranges? If Apple would decide the more robust variant wouldn’t that still be an improvement for all? Or are there providers that only support the mmWave variant? Obviously, many faster cars would put more pressure on building better roads (to use your picture here), but one year give or take, what’s the big difference? We are not talking about opposing 5G in general.
    MplsP

  • Microsoft president raised concerns about Apple App Store in House antitrust meeting

    wonkothesanewonkothesane
    Hey Brad, jealous that your company isn’t important enough anymore to be invited to the “grill party”? 
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