70% 💁♀️🥐/ 30%🍏🥐-or 27%🥐for 7 days+PSP fees. €0.50 per install in 🇪🇺?Name’s Tim or Sundar? Swing by the DoJ.
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🍏🤲30%🤲🥺—e/DMA retweeted
We just asked the Ninth Circuit Court to reconsider today’s decision granting Apple’s motion to stay the mandate.
We also filed our opposition to the motion to stay, which states: “Apple’s effort to stay this Court’s mandate is about nothing other than delay. While Apple’s commission for linked-out transactions remains subject to judicial review, most developers are reacting to the uncertainty by refraining from steering—so that most transactions continue to flow through Apple’s IAP. Staying the mandate, and thereby delaying the remand proceedings that will need to happen no matter what the Supreme Court does, simply delays relief for consumers and allows Apple to continue reaping supracompetitive profits from IAP.”
Here’s our opposition to Apple’s motion to stay: cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-g…
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The Apple App Store rules are borderline illegal.
This isn’t about security. It's not about malware. It's not about user experience.
It’s about control.
- Use Google login? You must add Apple login
- Sell digital products? You must use Apple payments
- Apple takes 30% of your revenue (this is frankly insane)
- You can’t tell users about cheaper prices outside the app
- You can’t use a different payment system like Bitcoin
- Apple can reject your app with vague reasons (or bend over due to political pressure)
- You can’t install apps outside their store (most regions)
They own the platform. They compete with you on it. And you still have to pay them.
Is this a monopoly or a mafia gang?
🍏🤲30%🤲🥺—e/DMA retweeted
The point of having multiple ways to pay is competition. Let payment providers with 2-4% fees compete with the store operator and their 30% fees, and lots of interesting things will happen. Developers will offer better deals. The store operator will have to compete.
He would’ve never allowed any tech progress in the first place. Just a few new clauses in the App Store rules and a few smearing campaigns with bros like @daringfireball with logistics akin to killing Adobe Flash.
1/ 🧵: Apple operates as a textbook case of geriatric institutional tyranny - where frameworks established by the retired constrain the living, and “inherited law” becomes an excuse for perpetuating injustice.
30/ Apple isn’t just a company with bad policies. It’s an institution that has successfully encoded its 2008 market position into “inherited frameworks” that resist reform.