dee_dee

avon b7 said: There will probably be more red tape (cost) involved. 

 

Probably?  Try definitely.  I thought the EU was all about fair competition?

longfang said:

Oh really? So the EU should just open up the common market to 3rd countries to be nice?

You don't see the irony in this comment.  Go on, read it again and see if you can see it?   The socialists in the EU want Big Tech to "open everything up to spur competition" Yet the EU wants to remain "closed".  They don't want to follow the very example they are trying to set (typical with socialists)

Stabitha_Christie said:

dee_dee said:

1 million to 1 odds this will only be available to developers that don’t use a 3rd party service for payment. 

Stipe, mentioned in the article, uses Visa, a 3rd party,  for payment processing. 

Stripe is a payment processor, and they work with a number of credit card companies.  They are not in the same category as app developers on the App Store. 

1 million to 1 odds this will only be available to developers that don’t use a 3rd party service for payment. 

crowley said:

dee_dee said:

crowley said:

Being able to buy an app once and have the purchase be valid across platforms does have an appeal.

I don’t see how developers are going to like that?  You have to pay for both an iOS app and Android app because they both cost money to develop.  

Developers on Steam and the Epic Game Store seem to cope just fine, and their prices are almost always lower than the single platform Mac App Store.

I doubt much of a developer's revenue comes from repeat purchases from platform hopping; there aren't that many people flitting between Android and iOS.

Irrelevant.  Not all steam games are compatible across all platforms, and the ones that are aren't native.