EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint

Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by eyesee on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:56AM (#26993520)

If anything I think the App Store has helped to drive the purchase price of software to $0. This in turn has driven every software vendor to either a subscription pricing model or a (privacy-invasive) ad model.

Open question on if this is net beneficial to consumers or developers, but it could also be considered an economic inevitability when MC = MR = 0.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by simion314 on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:15AM (#26993744)

I think maybe the ads helped this more, and what helped that is probably some ad library the developer can drop in the application.

What kind of free apps are there ?

1 some open source software that is compatible with iOS store license

2 trials or apps with pay to unlock stuff

3 free with ads

So IMO even if you have 3 stores this will not change. But you could get finally GPL software and apps/games that target adults.

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