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EU will force Apple & Google to allow third-party app stores, payment services
The biggest (and largely unspoken in this debate) problem with sideloading is that it's a portal for mass, casual piracy of third-party apps, especially mom-and-pop apps that don't depend on host servers. (That's why Epic Games is fine with this; their best products are server-dependent, hence already piracy-proof.) Then, small-time app developers — the very ones the legislation is allegedly crafted to protect — see 80-90% of their revenue disappear. That's what happens on Android, now it will happen on iPhone/iPad too?
And fines pegged on global revenue, not revenue in the EU? So even if Apple scaled back its business in the EU, it wouldn't make any difference?And would Apple really be able to contain these changes to the EU, with no impact on its non-EU business worldwide (malware; devs pretending to be EU, etc.)?Please, please, Apple, have the guts to just say no, and withdraw from the EU. Yes, that will suck, and a lot of people will hate you for it (if they don't already), but if the alternative is to let clueless lawmakers irreversibly gut your best products, forcing you offer just another, me-too, Android POS, then maybe it's finally time to take a stand. Exit their market, refuse to pay the giga-fines they lob at you on the way out, and let the people of the EU take some time deciding if their competition police are really helping them or not.
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European Union reaching 'final countdown' to major tech antitrust legislation
Xbox probably doesn't meet the revenue totals that would cause these new laws to kick in. Microsoft is loving it: a law to wreck Apple's best products.corp1 said:Well at least Microsoft supports it:
I'm looking forward to having alternate, third party game stores for the Xbox.We support efforts by the European Union to adopt uniform, forward-looking regulation to ensure that these gatekeepers operate fairly and do not undermine the ability of others to compete. To this end, we believe that the proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an important step forward. It requires large tech platforms, including Microsoft, to do more and work together to make “Tech Fit 4 Europe”.
(moved my other comments from here to the more recent EU-related article)
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Publishers back big tech antitrust bills, as long as they're excluded
Yet somehow, Epic's Fortnite is on many different platforms. And somehow, 75% of Steam's top thousand games (80% of their top hundred) now run on Linux, not just on Windows. And somehow, anyone who doesn't like Apple's decade-and-running policies doesn't have to create an iOS version of their game at all.crowley said:
Last time I checked, bookstores don't have rules that you can't sell your book, which is written in the bookstore's own special language, at any other bookstores.
Such comparisons don't really apply.
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Publishers back big tech antitrust bills, as long as they're excluded
Once upon a time, you went to a bookstore and bought a book, and if you paid cash, then nobody knew who bought the book. If you used a credit card (and maybe also a frequent-buyer card), then the bookstore knew who bought the book, but the publisher still didn't. What's wrong with it being that way today? Whine, whine, whine.
Also: "30% haircut" is weasel-words designed to make it sound like some kind of lethal decapitation that ought to be banned. It's called a markup. If you need $5, then set your store price to $7, and Apple will keep about $2 of that. It's not rocket science; retail markup has been around for decades before Apple even existed, and it never chopped anyone's head off.
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Apple wants 27% commission for Dutch apps using third-party payments
You mean, like Epic Games?It’s always perplexing when people think corporations should act like children throwing an [sic] tantrum.
