Apple cannot ban links to outside App Store payments, U.S. appeals court

Re:Apple cannot ban links to outside App Store payments, U.S... by ascagnel_ on Monday April 24, 2023 @07:50PM (#35694789)

Instead, Microsoft charged thousands of dollars per seat per development tool, and even more for access to documentation (I have an old set of MSDN CDs around somewhere).

It’s two sides of the same coin, and I think the idea of taking a percentage of revenue does a better job of aligning platform owners and developers.

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Re:Apple cannot ban links to outside App Store payments, U.S... by umeshunni on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:23AM (#35696456)

Indeed.

In the Microsoft model, small developers, who couldn't pay the thousands of dollars for development cost and figure out their own distribution lost.

In the App Store model, everything is free (or very cheap, $99), till you make revenue.

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Re:Apple cannot ban links to outside App Store payments, U.S... by nightski on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @08:51AM (#35699762)

This is just not true. It was relatively easy to obtain a copy of visual studio if you tried for relatively cheap. I know because I used their tools all through high school, college, and beyond and was actually rather poor during those times. They never tried to leech your revenue from you either in a scummy fashion later on once successful either.

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Re:Apple cannot ban links to outside App Store payments, U.S... by ascagnel_ on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:32AM (#35713397)

Microsoft was very active in giving free licenses out for education, but those licenses often wouldn't allow for commercial use. If you've never been through a license audit, their legal team would usually make you pay through the nose or suffer through a lawsuit if they found you weren't using the right license for your dev tools.

That said, they'd generally target bigger businesses over smaller dev-only shops.

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