Over 1,500 developers in the UK are suing Apple over the company's "excessive" App Store fees.

Apple hit with $1B UK lawsuit over ‘abusive pricing’ in App Store::undefined

  • realharo@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    How much would people pay for each of those items if they had a choice?

    No IDE is worth 30% of your revenue, neither are all the other services. The only thing of value in that list that even comes close is unblocking the ability of your app to run on people’s devices.

    The free advertising thing is also nonsense - unless an app is already really popular or really niche, nobody is going to find it via App Store search - most likely people will just follow a website link, or learn about the app somewhere else and just search for it directly by name.

    • Lucacri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      But the whole reason why they’d want to run it on their devices is because Apple spent billions to get people to use the phones (and R&D, and writing an OS, and advertising, etc)

      This is basically saying “I know you spent years and billions to make iOS become a very profitable place for me to publish an app successfully, but… I don’t wanna paaaayyyy! Apple is the big meany and they should do it for me because reasons”