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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by judge2020 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:44PM (#38396039)
Third party app stores don’t play into the legal liability of developing for iOS without a license. Chances are Apple still has every right to charge a percentage of revenue as the licensing fee for usage of iOS APIs.
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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by wavemode on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:06PM (#38396250)
Any regulation that requires allowing third-party stores, would be an anti-monopolistic move. So it would almost certainly include a requirement that those third-party stores be allowed to process payments themselves without paying royalties.
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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by zappb on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:24PM (#38399796)
That’s not how copyright and patent licensing works. If it did, the computing industry would look very different.
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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by wavemode on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:20PM (#38400366)
Copyright and patents aren't some kind of deep magic that binds the whole Earth. They're just laws. Legislators are free to change how those laws work...
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