It's not against the law to create a better and more profitable business.
replyIt's not, it just means when they say they "need to", they lie.
replyIt should be against the law to create they kind of business they have, though
replyWhy? Android has 72% of the market in 2025. As an individual company Apple has 20% of the market. Samsung has 19%.
replyJust don't buy an iphone and move on with your life.
Google is also listening though. They are slowly introducing similar restrictions after seeing what absurdity Apple gets away with as "compliance" of needing to also allow anyone to offer software for iOS. Our mistake is thinking it's fine that apple believers get vendor lock-in because there is still Google and Android lets you run whatever code you want. Yeah, until it doesn't
replyI still wish to sell to users of iOS.
replyApple has conveniently, for them, set themselves up as an unwanted middleman.
This is only possible for them to do because they make billions per quarter and I’m a struggling solo developer.
I can’t believe people are defending apple.
Companies can't simply do that.
replyIn fact, you will have a guarantee of failure if e.g. your messaging app doesn't support iOS
go ahead and make the law then. until then it isn't
replyBetter business for a specific company doesn't mean better markets for consumers and other participants, and we make laws to ensure the latter even if it's at the expense of the former.
replyThey charged for the operating system. The first MacOS X was $130.
replyI think the point is that they didn't charge developers anything specifically to be developers or sell apps. They just needed the same hardware and software as everybody else, which, yes, they probably had to buy.
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