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EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store (www.gamesindustry.biz)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dwazou@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Fuck the stupid morons who defend Apple.

Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from installing the software they want on their computer.

Imagine if Microsoft required all software developers to give them 30% of their earning or Microsoft will ban them from Windows

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Imagine if Microsoft required all software developers to give them 30% of their earning

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/publish/publish-your-app/why-distribute-through-store

Flexible revenue sharing options that let developers choose their own commerce platform and keep 100% of the revenue for non-gaming apps, or use Microsoft’s commerce platform and pay a competitive fee of 15% for apps and 12% for games.

I guess their rates are lower. Currently.

EDIT: And as @Eggyhead@lemmings.world points out, that's for Windows, not the XBox. For the XBox, they do run an exclusive store and apparently do 30% there as well.

continues using Linux

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

They better start fining in Billions

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

“reeeeeee”

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

$568m is a day Apple will never get back!

[–] Eggyhead@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Microsoft does with their Xbox, though. Don’t they?

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Yes but I don’t believe consoles are a target of the DMA or this investigation. While would be nice if consoles were opened up and forced to allow side loading and alternative stores, I think there’s an argument that they’re single purpose appliances - a PlayStation is sold to you with the intention of it being a gaming box and not much else.

A smartphone or tablet though is at this point a general purpose computer, and it’s reasonable to expect to have the same freedoms and open environment that you would on a PC. And Apple’s argument that they can’t open up the iPhone because security or whatever doesn’t really hold water, because the Mac exists and is both secure and open.

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[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Microsoft is actually the least problematic of the console racket (Sony, Nintendo and MS), games release simultaneously to pc and they offer cross compatibility. Maybe the EU will address it eventually, but i guess mobile takes precedent given that everyone has a cell phone.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Tim Apple to Trump

You know what to do, papito....

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