11mo ago

Apple's New Fees Will Kill Free Apps

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It doesn't count as "malicious compliance" if Apple is not complying. Apple is simply not allowed to have one fee structure for people who use the App Store to release stuff and another for other people. See "no self-preferencing". "Not providing an App Store" is not a service. All these tantrums are going to earn them is a swift kick in the nuts from the EU.
- We can only hope (っ˘ڡ˘ς)
- I wish it was swift.
  
  Apple isn't even required to comply with these new laws yet - so wishing the EU to enforce the rules now is pretty unrealisitc.

Fuck apple. Fuck apple. Fuck apple. Fuck apple. Fuck apple. Fuck apple. Fuck apple. Fuck apple. Fuck apple. Fuck apple. Fuck apple. Fuck apple.
Also, fuck apple simps.
- Also, fuck apple simps.
  Former Applecare rep here: Say it again, Trick!
  
  Haha, I bet you had some interesting conversations with the fanboys
  
  Hey there former colleague!

The rules are in place solely to lock in free apps to the official App Store. The EU is just going to have to tell Apple to deal with it. Apple is acting like it has to verify and sign every app that runs on its platform and therefore it justifies the fees. The EU just needs to force Apple to allow unsigned apps to run and then its not a problem.
- Even centrally signing every app doesn't justify a fee. There's virtually no cost in doing so. Mozilla does it for all Firefox extensions just fine.
- Anybody else their family’s tech support and glad an iPhone is a safe option when it comes to shady apps, as long as big boys are still allowed to buy Android phones?
  Wonder if it would work for Apple to sell multiple versions of the iPhone (geek & geezer).
  
  Without the intention to start a silly discussion about it, but it sounds like everyone in your family has an iPhone. Google Play Store is safe enough.. Never had one problem in my lifetime. Whole family with android. Greetings from Europe...
  
  following that logic, you don't allow your family to be near a desktop computer, do you? all those third party programs not approved by your OS distributor surely are scary.
  It's not like installing third party apps in Android is something someone can do by mistake. You have to specifically enable it in the options and allow it for the app that acted as a source.
  Most users never do this and use the Play Store just fine, which is neither more secure or insecure than the Apple Store.
  
  Android works just fine with the Play Store being locked down but enabling other sources being trivial if you know where to look.
  Heck, even Apple isn’t a stranger to this way of doing things. For like a decade now Mac’s Gatekeeper has given you a warning that is easily bypassed when you try to install something that isn’t either from the Mac App Store or from a third-party with an Apple code signing certificate.

Free apps were already pretty unsustainable in iOS to begin with given the $99 yearly developer fee :/
- And since they almost force using a Mac to develop such app.
- And the cost to own apple hardware (that is not exactly cheap, even 2nd hand)
  
  Maybe it is just me, but I paid only 50€ for late 16 macbook and got late 13 for free. Ssd and memory upgrades were about 100€ (dumpster ram) and both run ventura and sonoma (OCLP) without a hitch. And both work perfectly for programming and such.

Such a clickbait-y headline I am not going to watch it.
Free apps aren’t changing in anyway.
The tl;dr is that for developers using the app store, nothing changes. Developers wishing to not use the app store have to agree to a new fee structure.
Apple, as expected, intends to make up for lost profits by charging more money.
If you are outside the EU none of this matters to you.
Note that I am not disagreeing with the sentiment , but rather I am disagreeing with the clickbait headline.
- Well, it basically prevents something like F-Droid for iOS arising from the EU ruling. Kinda big deal. Not that the fanboys would care though. Apple is infallible.
- But the whole regulation was not about installing an app outside of the App Store icon, but outside Apple. To free the market of apps, such that the manufacturer is not the only one deciding what app you can install.
  It's like BMW would say you can equip tires different than from BMW store, but those other stores still must give them a fee.
  
  Kudos. That is such a great analogy.
- „Apples new fee might kill free apps in the EU that get downloaded more then one million times a year and want to be distributed via alternative app stores“ just doesn’t have the same ring to it I guess.
  Realistically this will only really hit stuff like Netflix Games when they want to try to make their own store or something similar.
- Right it's fine that apple is doing this, because... This video title doesn't end with "if people opt into this obviously shit set of terms". Makes sense.
  
  Nobody said this is a great policy. I was just pointing out the garbage level reporting of it by folks like the author.

Pay to play/win has long since killed the proper concept of a "free" app on just about every single platform.
- Looking at the huge amount of amazing open source programs on my system I would say that's a lie

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Well we will be able to download the free apps that apple don’t want in their store from other stores. Sad for non EU countries. Non brainer from apple that movement will push other regions to adopt the same laws as EU.

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