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0 pointslayer82y ago0 comments

It means that you have to set up a nonprofit for your weekend hobby project. The reality is rather that the hobby project is unlikely to happen due to this.

And in Europe there is a slightly different perspective on companies and capitalism. “Making money” is not taken as a blanket justification for anything. Companies have social responsibilities, and there is a balancing of company and consumer interests.

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turquoisevar2y ago

Heck of a weekend hobby project if it manages to pull in over 1M unique installs on iPhones in the EU alone.

Might want to make it your day job in that case.

kaba02y ago

A single nonprofit can create an alternative app store, and distribute any open-source app from within - this is pretty much how f-droid works on android.

I just don’t see how is it a negative change — eu citizens get more choices, while the eu laws won’t be turned against apple itself (a metastore would benefit no one, but meta).

layer8OP2y ago

The fee is payed by the app developer, not the third-party app store, and thus the app developer would have to be a nonprofit. Unless you want to relinquish control over your app to the third-party app store and make them the official “developer”. But third-party app stores also wouldn’t want to become liable for your app.

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