What a shitshow. I didn’t see the whole story, but which is it: the regulators didn’t see all these ridiculous demands coming, or intentionally left loopholes in the legislation that basically allowed apple to retain their control and even profit from it? What was their original intent?
Probably didn’t see them, Epic’s already suing again because of their compliance plan.
Can someone help me understand: marketplace makers will need to prove they have access to $ 1 million. Then Apple will charge 50 cents per marketplace install? So that means no possibility of a 100% free store for open source apps. Is that correct?
Non-Profits are exempt and nearly all large open source projects are non-profits. Small apps are also exempt - the 50c fee only applies if at least 2% of people in the EU use your app.
… however it seems like these exemptions might not apply to third party app stores for some reason.
If that’s the case, then it really defeats the purpose of the whole 3rd party store idea for me. Most apps I would consider installing are open source projects.
“App store is not a monopoly”
“We’re going to defend this non-monopoly till our dying breath”
Now that Apple are aggressively displaying their monopolistic attitude to anything 3rd party and their wanton greed. I wonder if we’ll see regulators going harder on them.
I very much doubt it and fully expect the regulators to effectively say “Oh well we told them and gave them parameters!”
Edit: All their products are fucking over priced, When YOU purchase YOUR phone YOU should be able to do what YOU want with it. Disagree? FUCK YOU
Apple are clearly fleecing anyone who purchases their shit and will continue to fuck you at every opportunity.
God bless the EU for taking this fight, and many others, on behalf of all of us. Only major entity actually making an effort at the moment.
Lmmfao! They really are bucking for a fine
I feel every other hardware manufacturer with a store that sells software for it should be held to the same rules then… Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo…
That sounds pretty good actually
Hasnt apple crashed and burned yet. Why are so many shiny hunting round edged magpies still sucking apples pecker
