Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ...
by briandear on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:57AM
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Can you prove price fixing? Or collusion? If you want to make the claim, then let’s see the proof.
Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ...
by alias_neo on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:17PM
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What options are there? Google Play, Apple App Store.
How much do they take? 30% and 30%.
Is there an option where they take less than 30% or where someone can compete on that cut? No.
Is there a different store you can use with the same privileges as these two stores? No.
Can you take your payments outside of the store and manage payment fees yourself so as to not give them 30%? No.
Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ...
by noisem4ker on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:08PM
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I doubt it's news to you, but Android openly allows app stores other than Google's.
Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ...
by alias_neo on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:33PM
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It's does, but between Google's certification process putting restrictions on device manufacturers and the fact that usually those alternative app stores can't be installed from Google Play, asking side the untrusted sources scare tactic against users, and Google Play protect so closely integrated in the OS now, theyre not really viable market places.
At best I guess we could say Google has a carrot approach where Apple prefers the stick.
A competitive market would be one in which the platform providers were forced to divest from the app markets, and support competing app markets which meet requirements, and which actively compete on features and price.
If cars only supported gasoline from manufacturer gas stations, and 95% of the market was controlled by cars from GM and Ford, and once you bought a GM car you could only buy gasoline from a GM gas station, would you call the gasoline market competitive?
To extend the metaphor, let's say it was technically possible to use third-party gas stations, but the manufacturers had hidden this ability, and it required a small amount of mechanical knowledge to enable, and maybe voided your warranty, would you then consider the market competitive?