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  • Epic Games & Spotify unsurprisingly unhappy with Apple's latest DMA update

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    phillyfanatic09 said:
    A better car analogy would be for a company like SiriusXM to demand that Ford place it’s products in Ford’s showrooms for free, allow Ford’s customers to install their product in Ford’s cars without any compensation. Or that Coke should be able to put their machines in McDonalds for free and profit off McDonald’s customers. 
    You subscribe to Disney+ directly to watch it on your Sony TV. Sony is taking 25% of the subscription and has the right to decide if the content made by Disney is acceptable according to rules set by Sony. This is OK as Sony has spent time on the color processing, audio improvements, and OS on the TV you bought. And you're thrilled when LG and Samsung decide to do the same making gatekeeping an industry standard showing how the market works perfectly without any regulation.

    That is not how we play in the EU.
    williamlondonctt_zhmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Epic Games & Spotify unsurprisingly unhappy with Apple's latest DMA update

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    Xed said:
    nubus said:
    Xed said:
    Do you really think you should be charged tens-f-thousands of dollars just to put an app on the App Store when you will have so little revenue and cost so little in effort and traffic from Apple?
    Why should Spotify pay 25% when handling payment on their own while gov. agencies and banks pay nothing? The effort required by Apple is the same.
    Apple can only do this as a gatekeeper. DMA is all about making sure it doesn't happen.
    Apple does not have a monopoly and I believe in a free market. 
    I believe in democracy. We have elected politicians directly and locally to ensure strong competition and space for innovation. You keep discussing whether Apple is a monopoly.  DMA is not about monopolies. DMA is about gatekeepers and Apple is on the list.
    williamlondon

  • Epic Games & Spotify unsurprisingly unhappy with Apple's latest DMA update

    nubusnubus
    Xed said:
    Do you really think you should be charged tens-f-thousands of dollars just to put an app on the App Store when you will have so little revenue and cost so little in effort and traffic from Apple?
    Why should Spotify pay 25% when handling payment on their own while gov. agencies and banks pay nothing? The effort required by Apple is the same.
    Apple can only do this as a gatekeeper. DMA is all about making sure it doesn't happen.
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Epic Games & Spotify unsurprisingly unhappy with Apple's latest DMA update

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    Xed said:

    There are major costs associated with SW and I'm afraid of how IOS, Xcode, App Store and all those advancements we see each year at WWDC could hurt users if companies like Epic and Spotify keep making all the rules.
    This is a tax on those creating great products and on those handling customers on their own platform. Apple is giving the platform away to banks, agencies, and all the companies offering free apps. Those failing to create great apps pay less. I don't see forced corporate socialism and taxing success as American values.

    Both the illegal anti-competitive kickbacks Apple took from Google and the handling of App Store indicate that something is rotten with Apple Services. We could see Apple banned from distributing apps.
    williamlondonVictorMortimer

  • How iOS 18's Web Eraser content-blocker morphed into a distraction-hiding tool

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    timpetus said:
    Forgive me, but did you just take credit for spoiling one of the best things that could have been released? They can complain all they want, but I’m 100% content to go scorched earth on ads and let the chips fall where they may. I think that world would have been a better one than what we will get now.
    Advertising is what pays for the web you use including this site. Sites could charge but people wouldn't pay or/and it would keep some out. You don't have to read AI - but if you read then your payment is through ads.

    For Apple to alter the products of other companies and for Apple to hit media companies while charging for Apple News and working on ads for TV+ is a legal quagmire. 
    muthuk_vanalingamgatorguywilliamlondonjSnively