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xyzzy-xxx said:

ericthehalfbee said:

Did I read that right?

- 88% of developers in the EU pay no fees (meaning they’re free Apps).
- 9% pay 15% (they’re smaller developers under $1 million in revenues).
- That leaves only 3% of all developers in the EU who pay the full 30%.

Can someone explain how this helps small developers when only 3% of all developers are paying 30% fees? Seems clear to me that the whiners at the top who make the most money are the ones complaining and these changes will do nothing to help the other 97%.

The 9% will probably now pay 10% instead of 15%.
The 3% will now pay 17% instead of 15%.
MORE IMPORTANT: Apple will not review the content of Apps that come from 3rd part app stores (so the apps need only to comply with the 3rd party app store guideline and the law) so there is no single company that decides which app is "legal" or not!

The 9% will pay either 0% or 10%, depending on whether they want to use their own store and payment procesing or continue to use the App Store (with an aditional 3% to use Apple's Payment Processing if using the App Store).

The 3% will pay 17% instead of 30%, not 15%.

Importantly, from the Apple Press Release for this (Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union - Apple):

"Notarization for iOS apps — a baseline review that applies to all apps, regardless of their distribution channel, focused on platform integrity and protecting users. Notarization involves a combination of automated checks and human review."

omasou said:

Charge a license fee to use the technology or like MC and Visa charge a per transaction fee + percentage.

MC and Visa only charge a fee when they're providing a service don't they? What service would Apple be providing in this instance to warrant charging a fee / percentage? 

danox said:

JMaille said:

Could the split to a different App Store for Europe be necessary to implement the changes required to charge developers directly for the use of Apple IP and backend systems in their apps directly since they won't be able to recover those costs as they do currently?

Yes, the more changes/inference the EU does, they will have the privilege of being split away from the rest of the Tech world as time goes on like continental drift.

Do you think Japan will follow the EU on this? Korea? Australia? China? Others....?

The EU are leading on this, others will no doubt follow.

22july2013 said:

Apple could create a new phone exclusively for the EU called ePhone which uses the same hardware as the iPhone but runs Android instead. Then Europe will have to complain to Google which writes the OS for it.

Who do you seriously think would buy such a phone? 

rob53 said:

As for anything the EU does, it's time they quit trying to run another country's product line. I'm sorry but anything related to current computers and operating systems rarely is created in EU countries anymore. Sure, you can find a few high tech companies in the EU but not as many as before and nowhere near as many as in the USA.

It's not where a product is created that is important here, it's simply whether or not a product is sold in the EU that matters to the EU regulators. Doesn't matter if the product is created in America, Japan, China, Vietnam, the EU, wherever... the number of high tech companies in Europe compared to America is completely irrelevant.