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

Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by nolok on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:08AM (#26994409)

I don't understand your point. If you're serving a file from AWS to ten people or to a massive userbase what happens ? Does AWS pricing change once you have a certain amount of traffic ? No, you pay per GB delivered. Apple should offer that kind of pricing, or a price per user (download) if they want.

And Apple should also be free to offer the % as an alternative if they wish, "don't want to bother with details ? Just stay entirely within Apple's system and pay 30% and that's it". But not strip the possibility of paying by use.

Because again, if I have 500 millions users, delivering a 5 MB update costs the same for a 5$ sub as it does for a 50$ sub, yet Apple's bills 10 times more to the second one.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by dropofwill on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:44AM (#26994954)

AWS price per GB actually goes down as you reach different monthly checkpoints.

To me it seems like payment processors are a more direct comparison and they usually do a combination of flat fee + percentage.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by AnthonyMouse on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:55PM (#26996916)

Note however that payment processors are actually charging in proportion to their costs, because one of their major costs is fraud for which the cost (if it occurs) is proportional to the amount of the charge.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by xxs on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:31PM (#26998897)

Payment processors bear the risk of fraud and extra checks for large sums. App stores have effectively zero risk.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by nicky0 on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:42PM (#26997552)

Your flat fee model would really suck for free apps.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by kevingadd on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:06PM (#26998608)

There's already a flat fee for free apps (the developer fees), and every customer has already paid a flat fee (buying the phone)

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by nicky0 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:01AM (#27062540)

We are talking about a flat fee per app delivery here.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by username90 on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:00PM (#26998537)

Advertisements in apps is a way to circumvent the app store fee currently, yes. That is bad, it means that ads pay close 50% more compared to selling apps compared to what they should, meaning Apples policy likely massively increased the number of ad based apps compared to purchasable apps. Forcing them to pay their fair share makes sense for everyone.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by nolok on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:58PM (#26997763)

Nobody stops Apple from offering an alternative "if your app is 100% free then there are no fees for you at all", beside the 100$/year they already have to pay.

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