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Re:Apple's new extortion regime to keep big app makers by tommica on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:48AM (#39139876)
> And let’s take Meta as a good example. Their Instagram app alone is used by over 300 million people in Europe. Let’s just say for easy math there’s 250 million of those in the EU. In order to distribute Instagram on, say, a new Microsoft iOS App Store, Meta would have to pay Apple $11,277,174 PER MONTH(!!!) as a “Core Technology Fee”. That’s $135 MILLION DOLLARS per year. Just for the privilege of putting Instagram into a competing store. No fee if they stay in Apple’s App Store exclusively.

I don't wanna live in a world designed by apple...

Re:Apple's new extortion regime to keep big app makers by hulitu on Friday January 26, 2024 @07:01AM (#39141695)
> I don't wanna live in a world designed by apple...

Has Apple still a design department ? I know that they had one a long time ago, but now it seems they disbanded it. /s