They will need a second, even stronger slap to finally understand it. Actually insane that they believe they will get away with this garbage.
Some people (me included) would actually like to have a secure, vetted ecosystem for software that gets installed on my phone (and even my computer). I realize that other people want something different. And think it is reasonable for people to want different approaches for different devices.
Any regulations designed to ensure the "open" model shouldn't prevent the "closed" model from existing. Your comment just seems a bit to heavy handed to my ear.
That being said, it seems to me that Apple's attempt is guaranteed to satisfy no one.
You seem to be demanding that everyone bend to your view of how the world should work.
But the fact is that Apple has a right to determine what apps are on their platform. No different to how supermarkets choose what items to stock or social networks moderate what content to show.
The whole point of all of these millions in legal fees is to even have the OPTION of an open model. Of course you'll always have walled garden option, that's apple's golden goose.
I don't think the problem is the idea of an app store offering only secure and vetted software. Apple absolutely doesn't offer that right now, but even if they ever do offer something like that would you really want that to be the only way to get software on your device?
Letting someone, no matter how trustworthy they are, decide for you what you can and cannot run on your own computer is a giving up a lot of freedom. I'd even say that was dangerous when it comes to our cell phones since we're basically stuck with just Apple or Google controlling our devices and for most people a cell phone is the only computer they own.
Did you read my entire comment? Both models should be available.
And that thing already exists - it's the app store. No one would be stopping you from choosing to only download apps from the official app store, and I assume that many people would be similar to you. They will only use the official app store because that is the vetted-by-apple place to find software.
But just because the closed and vetted ecosystem exists for users like you, doesn't mean that Apple should be able to prevent other people that don't care about that from doing what they want to with the devices they literally own.
Why can’t you and I just live happily in our walled garden without zealots of open access ruining it for us? It truly boggles me. Is it jealousy? That’s all I can come up with.
They might be Android users _because_ they don't like Apple's control.
Therefore I'm fairly confident that they will be found noncompliant. That might take many years though, allowing Apple a few more years profits.
And I would have doubts that any regulator would want to get into the business of deciding what is a fair percentage to charge for an SDk or API.
Replace "technologies" with "services and infrastructure" and you're close.
The DMA says that users should be able to choose other service- and infrastructure providers than Apple. Nobody's giving Dell or Microsoft a cut for every software install on a Dell PC, though I'm sure they'd love that.
And to your point, a judge in one of the recent cases even said they were not inclined to tell Apple how much to charge in their business.
I see the Netherlands case on third party PSPs for dating apps, and it was in the scope of apps downloaded and managed within the AppStore. Do you see any other case ruled in the EU on this subject ?
Apple made a decision early on to "give away" the ability to write and distribute (the $100 fee is nothing) apps for their store, and only take payment from payment received. So you have tons of free apps that just exist on Apple's code and infrastructure, with no cost to the companies.
Is an XBox 360 a general purpose computer?
Not that I would be opposed to game consoles also falling under this legislation.
Which is a necessary evil if you're shipping the hardware of that "computer" at ultra low or negative margins in order to make back the investment on SW sales.
Otherwise, the air force will buy boatloads of PS3s for a computer farm and scalpers will use PS5 for crypto mining and Sony would go bust from these hardware sales.
Apple is in a different position as it makes crazy margins even on hardware which is arare for hardware manufacturers.
Apple will retain the ability to shut off protest or encrypted communications/news/social apps, even when distributed outside of their store, by revoking the signatures.
This is a threat to a free society, not just a threat to Apple’s price-gouging revenue.
Given that they have not behaved similar with macOS we should assume the same here.
to me, i see the app store for 5 seconds between clicking a "download" link, pressing "install", and closing it.
on my computer i don't care if spotify publishes their desktop app through the apple store, their own website, command line, or some other thing. i trust it because the download link comes from spotify's website, that's the source of authority. i don't care about the thing in between clicking download and having it on my device.
Installing an extra BS "app store" app per vendor to do the distribution, dealing with another payment processor and its intricasies (for apps you pay/subscribe for, e.g. Adobe's), multiple places to manage apps and subscriptions, and so on.
>on my computer i don't care if spotify publishes their desktop app through the apple store, their own website, command line, or some other thing.
I do, and try to get as most of the stuff from the same source as possible, preferably the Mac App Store and brew.
I also hate the "update/licensing apps" running in the background for apps I use (Chrome updater is one most would be familiar with, but there are tons, especially for pro apps), and the extra multi-app download managers/stores I'm forced to use.
And don't get me started on shit like iLok.
I don’t have to ever enter in my cc info. I can easily cancel subscriptions from a centralized place. Payments UX is user hostile in the wild.
(no reason they can't do it yet, but they are banks after all)
