I mean whether it’s the EU or Epic, Apple isn’t interested in letting anybody just co-opt their baby.
well yes. That's part of the rub. You'll pay $100/year even if you never launch an app so that makes sense. That's the cost of using Apple's SDK.
But you may now pay $.50 per install even for a free app if you don't/can't host outside of the App store, unless you declare your company/business a non-profit or educational instituion. This was previously $0. So the price hike can become absurd, to say the least.
>Apple isn’t interested in letting anybody just co-opt their baby.
Well tough luck. you made more money off your "baby" than many country's GDP. Microsoft got co-opted for much less decades ago. Governments' interest is in making sure companies do not in fact hoard all the money in the world, and when your product becomes a centerpiece of society something's got to give.
If the user has not exchanged consideration for the software, what is it, a gift? Do they want it?
You can’t force someone to accept a gift, now you have to sell me iPhone without iOS!
If user just paid for the hardware, locking down the hardware and forcing the user to use iOS is interference with the user’s property, potentially a crime.
Furthermore, you have to provide a user manual For The Hardware separately. How is that gonna work? What does it do without software?
So consequences of taking this route could be even worse - having to allow android to run on Apple hardware or something.
The phone at least in the case of iPhones is the hardware unit plus the software (the operating system, the secure boot environment, the baseband firmware, and the apps bundled with the phone).
sounds good to me. But I don't think anyone's really arguing that here.
>You can’t force someone to accept a gift, now you have to sell me iPhone without iOS!
I mean, for Windows OEMs the licensing cost of windows is bundled in the price. Apple can do the same here. they are buying hardware plus a software OS. they aren't buying the entire app store as those apps each have separate costs assossiated with them. This is more like you can sell me IOS without the App Store (which again no one is really asking for. Just a reasonable option to sideload other stores).
