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.”

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      8 months ago

      The US is right now in a self consuming death spiral, that will only stop when politics stops being like football

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            8 months ago

            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?

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      8 months ago

      You and everyone here understood perfectly what I meant. Get out of here with your inferior presidential system.

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        8 months ago

        Pfft ok. You could’ve just said “I meant Congress” but instead you confusingly pushed back