ajminnj

Gilliam_Bates said:

ajminnj said:

Apparently Samsung join the boot Fortnite Party.  Gizmodo Exclusive: Samsung Has Also Removed Fortnite from the Galaxy Store

…or not. Read the article again.

gatorguy said:

Google also booted them from Google Play. You can still download directly from Epic, turn off security features and side-load, which of course isn't an iOS option. but Google handled it the same as Apple. 

beeble42 said:

Apple should charge $1000 per developer per year for XCode and $10000 per title per year to license the SDK. That is fairly reasonable considering what you get for the money and much cheaper than similar ecosystems before Apple built the App store. Codewarrior cost me $1500 back in the day and it was no where near as good as XCode. Adjust for inflation and you've got yourself a bargain.

And charge fees of $0.10 per download (including all updates) to help run the store, don't allow free apps and charge take 30% of the initial purchase price.

Developers aren't getting charged 30% for simply having their app on the app store. They're getting that for the entire ecosystem Apple built for them, tools, support systems, online store as a service and so on.

The reason Apple doesn't want to do that is because it kills innovation. It kills the small guys by putting a high bar in place to cover Apple's costs. Look at the before and after landscape. How many stories were there of high schoolers making a million dollars from their bedroom back when they had to pay vast sums for development tools, negotiate with publishers (who were taking more than 30%) and fight for shelf space at retailers (who were taking more than 30%)? In round numbers, 0.

Epic can die in a fire for all I care. All the developers who work there have profited immensely from what Apple has done for the software industry and now they want to either force Apple to give everything away or recoup their costs in the only other way and kill opportunity for those who come behind them? Disgraceful.

sacto joe said:

IMHO, the price for rentals is twice what it should be. I suspect that’s largely because the folks that own these properties are trying to make up for lost revenue, and demanding a major price hike from Apple.

It’s dumb. Cutting their price in half will more than double the folks who rent the movies. As it is, many will choose to wait for the price to come down. Why pay for a rental when you can wait and pay the same price to own it?

macgui said:

Charging people more than it would cost to see it at a theater is unconscionable. Coupled with streaming services cutting throughput to 480p, executives should be pilloried. There's just no way I'd pay $20 for a rental, and an SD rental at that.