ITGUYINSD

22july2013 said:

ITGUYINSD said:

22july2013 said:

ITGUYINSD said:

lkrupp said:

Fine, then Apple should be allowed to charge Spotify and arm and a leg for the privilege of having its app in the App Store.

Here we go.  First post and already got a "It's Apple's playground.  Don't like it, go play in the Android sandbox" defense. 

Apple would have to charge every developer "an arm and a leg" for that privilege then.  It would be the demise of the App Store.

Here we go again, with people saying Apple has no right to do what it wants. But ITGUY won't say who has the responsibility to determine what the rules should be for any company's store. The courts? The government? Apple's competitors?

There is so much wrong with forcing consumers to transact purchases made from within apps that Apple has nothing do to with (other than they forced developers to distribute the apps through the Apple App Store to the consumer), through Apple's servers and then charge the app company 30% for the "privilege".  Not sure what the basis of Apple getting 30 cents from Spotify because I wanted to buy an $1 audiobook through the Spotify app is? What did Apple do in that transaction to deserve 30%?  Give apps the ability to transact and take purchases directly.  Make Apple Pay an option in the app itself so Apple can actually do something to deserve a cut.

I asked you a simple question and you completely avoided it. Are you just saying that Apple should voluntarily change its model, or are you saying the government should pass laws to stop Apple from conducting business the way it wants? As I correctly predicted, you refused to answer that very question.

Apple doesn't have to let Spotify in the App Store at all, does it? This is not a rhetorical question, I want you to answer it. But again, you probably won't.

I have no idea what the terms of the App Store are so I cannot answer your question.  I would think that with the huge base of Spotify users, that if Apple made their app unavailable for use on the iPhone, that might hurt iPhone sales and piss off millions of people.

Governments around the world are looking at Apple's App Store practices so I guess the answer to your first question is Governments and courts.

You're not going to change my mind, and I'm not about to change yours.  

22july2013 said:

ITGUYINSD said:

lkrupp said:

Fine, then Apple should be allowed to charge Spotify and arm and a leg for the privilege of having its app in the App Store.

Here we go.  First post and already got a "It's Apple's playground.  Don't like it, go play in the Android sandbox" defense. 

Apple would have to charge every developer "an arm and a leg" for that privilege then.  It would be the demise of the App Store.

Here we go again, with people saying Apple has no right to do what it wants. But ITGUY won't say who has the responsibility to determine what the rules should be for any company's store. The courts? The government? Apple's competitors?

There is so much wrong with forcing consumers to transact purchases made from within apps that Apple has nothing do to with (other than they forced developers to distribute the apps through the Apple App Store to the consumer), through Apple's servers and then charge the app company 30% for the "privilege".  Not sure what the basis of Apple getting 30 cents from Spotify because I wanted to buy an $1 audiobook through the Spotify app is? What did Apple do in that transaction to deserve 30%?  Give apps the ability to transact and take purchases directly.  Make Apple Pay an option in the app itself so Apple can actually do something to deserve a cut.

lkrupp said:

Fine, then Apple should be allowed to charge Spotify and arm and a leg for the privilege of having its app in the App Store.

Here we go.  First post and already got a "It's Apple's playground.  Don't like it, go play in the Android sandbox" defense. 

Apple would have to charge every developer "an arm and a leg" for that privilege then.  It would be the demise of the App Store.

lkrupp said:

Well that’s rich since Google Play charges the same 30% Apple does.

YouTube is Google.  Why would they charge themselves 30%?

Tuubor said:

I have to disagree with the Apple Pencil hover feature. It is very significant for artists. This type of pen tip detection is on every graphic tablet and was the one big feature missing from the iPad. It is great for graphic designers but also for us photographers. The ability to preview the pen size and opacity before applying a mask in Capture One or Lightroom makes a huge difference in a pro workflow. With this feature, the ability to connect to an Apple Studio Display and all the other greatness of the iPad combined I am beginning to consider the iPad Pro for my photo editing workflow.

I feel like this article was really negative. Yeah sure those are minor upgrades and there is some silly stuff like the basic iPad not supporting the 2nd gen pencil, but this is a mature market already. Everything is incremental.

And if Apple left the price the same as previous gen, it would be a normal cycle.  But huge increases in price for just a chip refresh?  That's what people are saying NO to.

As much as Apple fan-people can't hate on Apple no matter what, at some point when Apple keeps raising the price for little to no changes or innovation, you have to say no.