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  • Justice Department lawyers are 'scrutinizing' Apple's App Store payment policies

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    DAalseth said:
    castcore said:
    DAalseth said:
    How they pay has nothing to do with building a secure "walled garden".
    Alternative pay systems and something less than the 30% cut should have happened before now. In addition, but related to the alternative payment system issue, is that Apple grabs 30% of sales on things bought with an App even if it has nothing to do with Apple, subscriptions, services, and such bought directly from a 3rd party, but using an App that once upon a time was loaded from the AppStore. This is abusive and I would expect the DOJ to come down hard on it. 

    And Apple has only themselves to blame.
    Why should Apple allow these Apps to be In a store they setup for free? So if no 30 percent flat fee, maybe they should charge rent for being in the store monthly?

    this is like you telling your landlord you feel like you should only pay half of the rent he wants. What will he do if you say that? Report you to collections and evict you!
    If you want to use a rent analogy how about this.
    You rent a store front to run your business. But the landlord wants a cut of your sales. You sell more and they get a bigger slice. Oh but the landlord gets to tell you what upgrades you can charge for and what you have to give away for free. Oh and the landlord also gets a cut of your sales even if they come out of your home office and not the store front you are renting.

    See how abusive this is?

    Stores in malls often pay the mall a cut of their sales. And yes, those malls get to say what you can or cannot sell which is spelled out in their lease terms, and can tell you what you can and cannot do with your space. Apple doesnt' get a cut if you sell outside of the app store, so that part is not applicable. But yep, just like a normal store otherwise. 
    svanstromGeorgeBMac

  • Over 100,000 live radio stations, user profiles coming to HomePod with iOS 13

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    Very glad to have direct access to radio stations this way...especially for sports and talk radio this will be great.
    tnet-primary

  • Apple purges 'Doorbell' category from HomeKit accessories page

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    Another category that is severely lacking is sprinkler controls. Bother Orbit and Rachio were supposed to have HomeKit integration as announced almost a year ago. Orbit even advertised with the HomeKit logo on their box. But there's been absolutely nothing but crickets from those companies other than to say they are waiting on Apple. Meanwhile Eve just released a hose control, which I really fail to see the usefulness of...
    roundaboutnow