jmurgen

I don’t like it when compared to me, wealthier people suggest I should pay more for an item as a tax to support their industry. The public already supports the arts via regular taxation in the form of grants etc. but because their is some oversight attached to that money they want more. Let’s forget about the fact that the tax forces me to pay for content indirectly that I have no interest in whatsoever. Many professions were impacted by the pandemic and governments around the world are spending huge sums of money in support that the tax payer is ultimately going to have to pay, but artists are special and want more. How about the industry that has created many many millionaires try to figure something out to support its industry that doesn’t involve their hand in my pocket?

Apple is definitely responding to the pressure it has felt recently, which doesn’t diminish the benefits it brings to smaller developers. Now let’s see the other stores and consoles follow suit, not likely. As an aside Apple’s control of the SDK and strict requirements is a good argument in the face of the story where most of the malware on Android comes from Google’s App Store where their stewardship his far more lax. 

Wow, it’s just like the civil rights movement except the part that made it the civil rights movement, I understand now. Apparently greed does make you stupid. 

This is a classic example that all the uproar against Apple is merely posturing by other companies, when given the opportunity they will do the exact same thing. Corporations are not your buddy, they will turn on you the first chance they get. Spotify just finds itself in a business that has no real value, they don’t create the music, they don’t create the playlists, and as time goes on running a cloud based streaming service is becoming child’s play because everyone is doing it. If the music companies could ever get a clue they would disappear overnight. Their only hope is to become a real music company that signs artists and then streams the content, there is one too many middle men is this soup already. 

I am curious as to how alternate app stores would be of any value to the device user, it seems to me you would just have another entity involved that could potentially muck things up since their attention probably won’t be as focused as Apple’s. I say this because they would have no where near the vested interest in protecting the ecosphere as Apple does. I think the better approach is for Apple to amend its rules to be more transparent and allow for an appeal process for developers. Apple should also lower their percentage on a tiered system where smaller companies pay less and larger companies pay more, this could be done by app sales or higher developers cost (the $99 thing).