crowley

ppietra said:

A bit hard to believe this growth is real! IDC probably made some sort of mistake, especially when see that it projected a 20% decline in Apple’s sales in the 2nd quarter, while Gartner projected 10% growth. This kind of big swings don’t make any sense.

lkrupp said:

Cue the “Apple is greedy” crowd.

motif88 said:

More buffoonary from the bureaucrats…Let’s let a bunch of unelected morons control our destiny. Wait that have already decided that know better (via lobby $$$) that everything should be USB C, yet nitwits that control the USB branding and tech specs can’t get out of their own way. Great Job!

lkrupp said:

Well, you idiots rejoicing at the EU mandating USB-C were told this was just the beginning.

And of course not a word about Tile and other tracking tags. Just Air Tags

randominternetperson said:

CheeseFreeze said:

Secondly, there is nothing that prevents the EU from amending their own laws with the acceptance of a future standard, granted it actually IS a new standard (not another propriety AppleConnector or SamsungSpeedyCable).

And how exactly is a new, better standard supposed to arise when it would be illegal to include it in EU-bound product?

Companies invest in R&D for competitive advantage. There will be much less incentive for a company like Apple to invent a new standard and then, rather than include it immediately in a new product, negotiate (for years) with other companies to make it a standard and then convince (after years) the EU to allow this as the new standard. Given the EU's deserve to have a single standard, would they then set a date for the existing standard to be 100% phased out?  Twenty years from now, kids will be asking why we still have these clunky, out-moded USB-C plugs/

davidw said:

crowley said:

davidw said:

crowley said:

Do Apple do this without informing developers?  And are developers able to set different price tiers for an app in different territories?

I’m sure the situation could be improved to give developers a bit more control over the sale of their own products, though Sweeney is obviously angling more for headlines than any actual positive change. 

For your first inquiry ...... No,      

 https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/09/20/apple-to-hike-app-store-prices-in-europe-and-other-countries-in-october

For your second ....... I imagine if a developer only sell their app (or a special version of one) in certain countries, then it's yes. They can price it as they wish. But if they sell the same app in more than one country, then the apps will cost the same in all those countries, with regards to currency exchange rates. 

If the same app cost significantly less in the US, than it does in the UK (or EU), what prevent a person (outside the US) from buying the same app in the US by using a VPN?

Significant inconvenience. The exact same problem exists for all sorts of digital goods and hasn’t proven a major problem for anyone else.

I'm not  a developer but it would seem that being able to develop one app in the US app store that works across many countries and have Apple or Google manage the price for all the countries that the developer chooses to sell their apps in, (to take into account the currency exchange rate), would be a major convenience. If a developer wants to price their app different in another country, like say the UK, then they need to develop a version for that country and they can price that differently than their US version of the app. Or even create an .."EU"... version that's only available for sale in EU countries. 

Hell, I think all the developer would have to do in Xcode, is to add something like ... "UK" ....to the title of their app and create another app for the app store, that they can  restricted for sale only in the UK. Now the developer have two of the same app in the app store, each with a different title, that they can manage separately. Doesn't seem to be a major inconvenience, unless they want to separately manage all the apps they sell in like a dozen or more countries. But even those versions would be subject to Apple pricing changes due to the changes in the currency exchange rates. So the developers still have to keep up with that.