Re:U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store ...
by dcow on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:29PM
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I think it would be interesting if the court looked at who signs the software being purchased, from a digital security and ownership perspective. When you purchase an app from the App Store you are purchasing Apple's software. It's no longer signed by the original developer. If the court held Apple to the model they've deployed for their ecosystem, that could have interesting ramifications on the means by which Apple locks its platform down.
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Re:U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store ...
by mark212 on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:38PM
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true, but in antitrust terms the developer is still setting the price. Not Apple. It's the developer who makes it a free / freemium / $0.99 / $999.99 app. That pricing decision seems to be responsible for the circuit split.