Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
by oblio on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @03:36PM
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Windows was the most successful platform in IT history for about 30 years without this BS.
Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
by carlosjobim on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @05:15PM
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And they still are, when it comes to enterprise. But consumer software spending was something very niche before Apple expanded the market.
Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
by oblio on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:12AM
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> But consumer software spending was something very niche before Apple expanded the market.
LOLNO :-)
The web is and was a major consumer "software" platform. We just don't have raw numbers for it because it's so distributed, my guess is that it's still bigger than these walled gardens combined.
The web would be even bigger if said walled garden makers wouldn't c**block it by not investing in progressive web apps & co (while they are investing like crazy in their walled gardens, of course).
Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
by carlosjobim on Thursday June 27, 2024 @10:10AM
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30 years ago was 1994. Most people did not even have a personal computer. Consumer software was a super niche product.
Subscription online software for consumers was not a big market until pretty recently. As a matter of fact, from the top of my head I cannot think of any such software that is very popular for consumers. Or do you refer to subscription entertainment?
Let me know when I can start selling stuff on Amazon without giving them a cut. Or put up a stand in the local supermarket where I sell my produce directly to customers.
If App developers made iOS such a profitable market, why haven't they made Android an equally profitable market? There's more users, more liberty, more potential money to be made.
What it comes down to is whether it's better to get a big piece of a small pie or a smaller piece of a big pie. Apple offers a bigger pie of user spending for developers, while cutting out a bigger chunk for themselves from that pie.