Developers interested in distributing iOS apps on their websites also have to cross a high bar. This includes being registered or incorporated in the EU, being a member of “good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more,” and having an app that received “more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year.”
Apple will also vet the apps, which must receive official “notarization” from the company, before they can distributed on third-party platforms.
Developers must pay a 17% or 10% commission, and fork over “€0.50 for each first annual install” if their app crosses one million total installs over a 12-month period.
Critics have since slammed the new fee structure, calling it anticompetitive. “This is extortion, plain and simple,” Spotify said in January. “For any developer wondering if this might work for you, you need to have less than a million customers and essentially sign up for not growing in the long run.”
I really hope the EU doesn’t find this “compliance” good enough - it’s absolutely not free sideloading of apps like on Android, or any PC ever. It’s pretty much the App Store, but with a smaller fee for a while and with Apple wasting less money on server costs.
I’m sure they don’t. Had they just gone with the “we can block your app for security reasons and want to see it first”, they might have. But requiring long term active developer accounts (which has a yearly fee), preapproval, commission, payment per download etc, that isn’t allowing sideloading at all, it’s just an Apple app store in a trenchcoat.
Queue years of lawsuits until they actually comply with EU law.
What can we do to get those rules to apply in the USA?
Remove corporate sponsored members of Parliament.
You’re under the impression that the US has a parliament? We don’t
You and everyone here understood perfectly what I meant. Get out of here with your inferior presidential system.
Pfft ok. You could’ve just said “I meant Congress” but instead you confusingly pushed back
The US is right now in a self consuming death spiral, that will only stop when politics stops being like football
Which is related to parliament because…?
Because there is a parliament. A very disfunctional one
Just because the concept is similar doesn’t make a bicameral legislature the same thing. Maybe don’t be so confident about something you clearly know little about?
