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Apple overcharges rival streaming services, claims Brussels

Brussels considers that Apple breaches EU competition law because it charges high commission fees on rivals on the App store. #EuropeNews

www.euronews.com

Complaint was filed 2 years ago by Spotify.

 

[thefool]

Good.

 

[A.Romero]

Just let them advertise they can sign up on their page (not a direct link).

 

[Soodanim]

I'm surprised the services don't go the Comixology route and make people so payments elsewhere. Even if signing up is just slightly removed by being a browser link, it still becomes removed from the App Store ecosystem.

What's the alternative solution here? Forced exemption from rules to ensure price parity for services that compete with Apple's own?

 

[Panajev2001a]

Just let them advertise they can sign up on their page (not a direct link).

Apple is shifting more and more of revenue expectations on services and this makes them compete against the app developers that helped prop their platform HW sales so far.

The competition is not even as Apple also makes the complex and unevenly applied Review rules which this is just a public face of (up to the personal reviewer and review board interpretation and there are rules they throw at you that are sometimes just very loosely related to the language there): https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

The fun of being told that if you do A then your app cannot look "store like" in terms of UI is perhaps hard to appreciate (and seeing some competitors sneaking through without any changes even better). Recommendations to users? Store like. Big image tiles? Store like. Carousels and categories/sections? Store like. Curiously you can see this starting to happen when Apple Arcade entered the scene… . They are full of such rules, but people want their devices too badly so they are mostly always against the devs and pro platform maker so they have 0 incentive to change.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Just let them advertise they can sign up on their page (not a direct link).

Or maybe let them have people sign up with Apple Pay directly with them inside the app or choose and App Store subscription at 15-30% more if they want that option. All in the app. Amazon has its own payment system, parking apps do, tons of App Store apps allow you to pay to the service provider directly and get they can even use/be mandated to offer Apple Pay too for security reasons…