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The cost of being a developer on the App Store has increased from $100 to $25,000 a year in Korea. You’ll need to upgrade to the new membership. credit for time remaining in your current membership can be applied to the upgrade or you can request a refund. 

Little late for that now. Apple already opened that can of worms (if it is actually a problem) just by announcing it. I'd still kind of like to see this implemented. I think Apple has addressed this as best it can, and governments can mandate that companies scan for this stuff with laws regardless of any prior implementation. Tech has kind of created this problem of sharing these CSAM photos easily. I'd like to see them as part of the solution too.

mknelson said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

Right, which is what the story says. And, what the lead image in the story practically demonstrates.

The elevated heart rate on her Apple Watch is what clued the woman in to the heart attack, leading her to get medical attention.

Do you know if the watch put up a "hey, this seems like a problem" alert as we've seen in some other cases "heart rate warning", or if she just noticed the high heart rate on her own?

The article doesn’t say, but the watch certainly has a setting to do that. I imagine she probably got a high heart rating warning, I’m not sure if the watch counts it as a warning. It’s been a while since I had one from setting it abnormally low. Either way, Apple has been promoting always on health devices and this does show the value of that. 

Companies need to actively defend trademarks or the power of the trademark weakens. Let it slip even a little, and future cases get weaker. Unfortunately I think Apple’s hands are tied a bit in this case. They pretty much have to defend their trademark even when it’s a bit ridiculous. Common sense may suggest they are very different, but legally I don’t think it’s that simple. 

avon b7 said:

This move doesn't tackle the root issue that is being investigated on multiple fronts. That there is only one App Store on Apple devices. 

Apple can legitimately charge whatever it wants but that isn't, and has never been, the root issue.

I think Apple feels good news won't result from the different investigations and this reduction is a move to leave them in slightly better light when final rulings are delivered. 

To be honest, this is an appealing point of the Apple ecosystem. I don’t want to have to install multiple store apps. I don’t want to have to give my credit card to other app stores, some of probably questionable quality. I don’t want to have to figure out which App Store to to go to check for updates. I don’t want to have to search through multiple app stores (or worse each app individually) to figure out what subscriptions I have. The single store brings a lot of advantages that I don’t want to give up and probably more I’m forgetting to list. I think people get too concerned about only cost and don’t see the chaos multiple stores could bring. The idea that costs would go down I don’t think is a sure thing either. it just means money going into different pockets, not less money. Apple spend a lot of money developing the chips and other technology in the phones. They spend a ton of money on the compiler and developer tools. They spend money developing the APIs the developers use. They aren’t going to just open this to other stores completely bypassing Apple. if it’s mandated, the stores are going to have to pay Apple something.