You might want the EU to force iOS to be an open platform, but I don’t think that was their intent when they made the requirement to allow alternate browsers.
And how is that exactly? Can you please elaborate?
It's all so familiar: just a year ago Apple would have had us believe that "You know as well as everyone else does that third party browser engines must integrate with the platform at the level of the OS which would break iOS’s security model."
Well, that obviously wasn't true, but there's still sheeple who will take the bait again and again :-)
EU can and should tighten the screws. Exponential fines. It is free money for the EU.
If the EU wanted to force iOS to be an open platform, they could have written a law to that effect.
I wish people would realize that just because the EU is regulating Apple and it’s fun to see power be brought to bear against Apple, it doesn’t mean the EU is actually competent to regulate the market.
The EU has done more to improve consumer choice in the mobile app industry than any other region in the world. They can go even further, but their progress so far certainly demonstrates competence.
What will happen with the DMA is still to be seen. So I wouldn't judge it until we've seen if the intended effects of the regulation come to pass.
Apple isn't a monopoly, by any stretch of the imagination. 13% of the US market in Macs, 25% in mobile phones. Starbucks has a markup of 90%. Named brand spices, 100%. Hotel mini-bars, 400%. But Apple, which built the concept of an App Store, built the platform and the payment infrastructure, advertises and delivers the product, is somehow the bad guy for charging for it.
Have you tried asking Walmart how much you would have to pay to sell your product in their store?
I understand. Apple targets the high-end, so their consumers tend to be the well-heeled and hence a truly desirable market. It's like being a goat behind a fence, where all of the best green is on the other side. But, to leave the caprine behind us, what would you pay for access to a customer basis like the iPhones, including billing and distribution?
It's not as if you have to use the App Store. Deliver your apps via your own web page, advertise accordingly, and implement billing, with the attendant security.
Bob is then your uncle.
Or sell to the majority market - 75% of mobile, 87% of desktop. You know it makes sense.
Until you realise that there is minimal protection against wrongdoers, which makes your market skittish. Nor much support in the way of promotion. Still, most studies state that PC and Android are the way to go if you want peak sales.
Just do it.
This just isn't true. You cannot implement the same features in a Web app as you can in a native app.
A quick search shows me in the US market iOS makes for 55% and google for 45%. [1]
Also there's a big generational gap too with younger people in the USA vastly preferring the iPhone to android (most likely due to social pressure rather than free choice).
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
I’ll worry if/when ios gets released like this.
Back then it wasn't even the E.U. but the US Government prosecuting the case. Apple have learned well from the masters, and are claiming the same pathetic, dishonest drivel as Microsoft tried at the start of this century.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
