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  • Google Chrome version 100 gains multi-screen API, new app icons

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    Wait until Chrome version 1000 or version 10,000. Ridicules version number naming from both Chrome and Firefox.
    You should not assume that version numbers are related with IQ, and that reaching 100 is only for lunatics.
     
    watto_cobra

  • Apple & Big Tech may just keep paying fines instead of abiding by new laws

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    jkichline said:
    I love how politicians think that tech companies can just snap their fingers and drastically change their payment, cloud and operating systems within weeks that could effect billions of users. It's cute really.

    That would be indeed be a valid reasoning, if Apple did not have the engineering resources and if the decision of the just was a few weeks ago.    However Apple has plenty of engineers and the decision of the judge was in October, some 4 months ago.      
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • App Store users spend more than double what Google Play users do on subscriptions

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    I am an app developer for iOS and Android.  Revenue split is 60% Android, 40% iOS.  Because my apps are targeted at the European market, where the iOS market share is around 20% - 25%,  this is in line with the figures in the article.    
    thtnarwhal

  • EU lawmakers unfazed by Meta's threat that it would pull out of Europe

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    JWSC said:
    I can just see the collective outrage if Facebook and WhatsApp were removed from the EU market.  Facebook, while a tedious medium to many, is still wildly popular. Many people have built their entire lives, businesses, and social networks on the platform. While painful, I have no doubt that Meta could and would do it if they believe their entire business model is threatened. Yanking it unceremoniously from the unwashed masses would prove to be very unpopular, and Meta would make sure everyone knows who is to blame. Obviously, Meta would prefer not to do this. But it's no bluff.
    I would not mind that Facebook app went away because Meta does not respect the privacy rules in the EU.   The gap will quickly be filled by other apps.

    For the WhatsApp app, this is a different story.  Thanks to very strict restrcitions the EU has imposed when Meta bought WhatsApp, the EU consumers have a much better WhatsApp  EULA than the American consumers.  With end to end encryption and no link allowed between a Facebook profile and WhatsApp,  WhatsApp has become the default messaging app in the EU, even between iOS users
    JaiOh81sphericmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple wants 27% commission for Dutch apps using third-party payments

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    Beats said:
    Apple should charge 35%

    30% store fee and 5% to cover the hassle, customer support inquiries and stupidity of lawsuits against Apple if something were to go wrong and Apple is sued etc.

    That would be extremely unwise.  In most countries, you can appeal but not bypass a decision of a judge.  This would not only result to heavy fines but the EU  commission might see as a proof of abuse of monopoly of the Apple App store towards the iOS app developers.

    Even with the 27% Apple is giving the wrong signal to the EU commission
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