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It’s interesting that a conversation about non-App Store app installation develops into a conversation about dumping shit into the waters that people swim in…
Actually regarding effectively dictating other countries what to do, I think USA, China or Russia are way ahead of EU. EU uses its economic weight to set some standards for products that we import. Sure, the EU is not a choir boy, forced African countries to open their markets which was devastating for their industry. When it comes to “dictatorship” by regulatory laws, I think the world’s biggest dictator is actually California. Maybe closely followed by China.
Unelected. True, but did you actually exactly vote for these people being in power in your country? Did you elect the government of California? For my country, I must say that I didn’t. If you ask me our western democracy is closer to an oligarchy than a real democracy. Just look at the MPs and senators and you know what I mean. But that’s another story.
In the end of the day what powerful countries do is protecting their interests. In the case of regulating digital services to the advantage of consumers and competition there is not really an EU internal lobby against it. That made it easy to decide for consumer friendly laws. As I wrote before, in the EU the car industry was not regulated that much because of a strong EU lobby against it. Consumers ended up with cars that don’t meet modern emission standards.
Maybe for indie developers yup. They are getting unwittingly played on this. Their future is cooked. Only big tech outfits will survive…and for anti-AppStore consumers who think they are so smart congratulations ya played yourselves too. App stores have never worked at scale save for a minor historical exception or two.
OK now, that's a benefit I hadn't thought of. The Apple App Store doesn't allow GPL licensed stuff. A third party store could. Now that would be great.
15% ... unless the app sells over $1,000,000 per year.
Why do you think so and what would be meaningfully? Can you show me where this legendary free market is? I know of a global market but it’s not free.
Your graph is outdated
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/EUR-USD?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjt0pyPu_n7AhURSPEDHQrkBqgQmY0JegQIBRAb&window=5Y
Most of Europe is in a deep energy crisis. That is a very very serious problem. Many people don’t know how to keep their homes warm. That is not funny. Given that, the recent recovery of the Euro is remarkable.
The EUR is still way below its former performance in 2020 or so, and Apple can't keep changing price tiers daily!
How is that Apple's problem? Apple is just stoically adjusting prices for currency fluctuations. They're not some kind of charity... (although I admit they like to act as if they were, for marketing reasons...)
They actually don’t adjust them very often either - it only seems to be when a trend doesn’t seem to be reversing that they will make a change.
Yes -- I have no insight on the internal mechanisms at Apple obviously, but it does make sense on the surface. Each currency adjustment probably causes a huge amount of overhead with all their international tax business, developer contracts, etc., so it needs to be planned and executed and probably eats up significant resources.
I for one am quite grateful for Apple's work and I'm totally fine with them keeping 15%. If I had to do all the international tax, VAT, and other contractual stuff to be able to sell my apps internationally, I'd spend roughly $10,000 per month on lawyers and accountants! 😄
It’s only a matter of time (oh about half an hour) before we can use our phones to talk to chatgpt to ask her to generate a prompt for a super-duper new AI inpainting diffuser type thing which can generate any app or computer program you wish, as a web app
It still won’t be able to do hands though
I don't want to get too much into political discussions (granted, I started it a little), but recently, I have the impression that the EU is increasingly resorting to often severe market interventions (some of them clearly and explicitly illegal), both internally and externally, to cover up the fact that their currency has failed. They're also basically at odds with any country whose cultural values differ from theirs, while they keep trumpeting that they're the free-est and most tolerant entity in the world.
The Euro is on the rise since beginning of October. That’s several weeks, not days. How good to know about Apple’s pricing tier policy. Then I better postpone my app purchases until Apple has adjusted. How can I find out when they do that?
Apple can't keep changing price tiers daily??? WTF? It’s simply conversion. C’mon Apple, I don’t need “good looking” 9.99 prices. I’d actually prefer 10 instead. But even better I’d like that it would represent the actual exchange rate and it would be 9.21. What shall I think of a tech company that can not deal with daily exchange rates? Or at least let me pay it in USD - easy peasy with PayPal where I actually get the correct conversion. TBH one more reason to dump the AppStore.
Don’t get me wrong. That’s not Apple’s fault. Just my comment on the recent Euro performance.
I guess Apple is just like many huge companies -- very slow. Their processes very beurocratic, etc. It's fine with me, but I also get your point.
Anyway, back to this new app I'm making...
I’ll probably take a wait-and-see approach on whether any non-Apple App Store ends up worth using, but I do welcome moves toward ensuring people have more say in what they do with devices they bought and “own”. Personally, I like the protections offered by staying in the walled garden, but it’s possible that a third party could create a market based on security AND choice. Not saying I necessarily expect it, but it’s possible. If nothing else, maybe some competition would spur Apple to make the search function in the App Store more useful. In the meantime I do my searches on App Sliced and then buy in the App Store.
Not far fetched at all. I experimented with ChatGPT programming a basic tap instrument in Swift and it got way closer than I expected
https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/apple-to-allow-sideloading-external-app-stores-what-this-means-for-iphone-users-8324337/
Gee, that sounds great. (Yes, this is sarcasm.)
Be careful what you wish for, EU. You might get it.
Enjoy rampant viruses and having all of your data exposed to hackers. It'll make the EU just like living in China or Russia.
What barriers?
No. That would be the USA. Historically speaking.
Oh, good point. And with the new pricing model Apple will be rolling out (where developers will be able to charge less than ninety-nine cents for an app) this will mean that developers in the EU will be competing with more cheap and "free" ripoff titles than ever. That can't be good for their business there.
Opening iOS to competing App Stores doesn't mean "everything" will run on iOS. If it's not in the Xcode / Swift SDK, you still won't be able to run it.
And by the way, other App Stores will still have to pay Apple to have this access.
Also looking forward to Facebook creating their own App Store… and getting rid of all the do not track protections or fake background audio snooping. Fine you may not be dumb enough to install it, but some innocent yoofs in ya household will, and FB will triangulate the ish out of you. Contacts at all.
Let’s celebrate this bold action!
Yeah for sure, like I said later in the thread it probably won’t happen, but at least now it’s possible, so I can start to work on the devs and foundation. They’re pretty well resourced nowadays, and recognise the value of wider use cases.
I’ve been signing 3rd party apps for ages. It’s great to be able to load emulators and whatnot. Maybe we will finally get a ps2 emulator and I’ll finally be able to play ssx in bed
Re: the "prices will go down and that will hurt the developers" argument - read up on what happened when the EU announced it would ban intra-EU mobile roaming charges.
Every single multinational mobile service provider cried their eyes out and rolled out exquisite assessments by respected academics and economists explaining how this would ruin the market, destroy Innovation and investment, hurt the consumers, lower tax revenues, you name it - just every tragedy you can think of. Some also threatened to leave the EU market if the law ever came out.
Then the EU introduced the law.
The very next day - nothing happened. Consumers started using their phones all over the EU for no extra charges. The service providers acted like they had never had any concerns ever, and we never heard of those economists and academics with their smart assessments again.
Ps. Now that providers in the UK free market are not strangled by the evil EU dictatorship any more, they quickly discovered that the roaming charges may be necessary after all. 🤷
If this opens up iOS to piracy I’m not going to be a happy camper (and probably out of here).
Yeah funny that, and I mean peculiar 😅
Okay, that explains your earlier comment about the "dying euro", which didn't seem to make much sense as a general statement. But if you need it to die because you shorted it, that's different 😀 That's fair enough.
I'm not saying good luck though, because I have an interest in it surviving. 👍
😄 Well, at least we've resolved our conflict of interest peacefully! Something that doesn't happen too often in global politics recently...
🤝