Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs

Re:Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs by zaroth on Monday October 22, 2018 @12:51AM (#18272257)

It’s not on par in the slightest! Because Apple has spent (billions?) making their Native SDK, and it shows.

But they do charge 30% for the privilege of using it to make commercial software.

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Re:Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs by wvenable on Monday October 22, 2018 @12:57AM (#18272278)

Yeah no. Commercial SDKs and toolchains existed before iOS; heck the OS itself is just a fork of Mac OS. There is no financial reason, other than massive profits, to charge 30% on every transaction.

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Re:Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs by pjmlp on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:47AM (#18272456)

Those commercial SDKs to sell Symbian, J2ME and Windows CE apps in the mobile operators' stores were way higher than 30%.

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Re:Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs by wvenable on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:29AM (#18272600)

I developed Symbian and Windows CE apps and we distributed those bad boys the old fashioned way.

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