Feels very much like a punitive charge to me.
If that's the case, hopefully legislation will catch up.
If that's the case, hopefully legislation will catch up.
So EU businesses will simply have more options to choose from.
Not very many businesses, but there are quite a few biiig ones.
Here on HN I often read startup stories about services which, on one hand, “nobody” has heard about, and which, on the other hand, “quickly grew to a couple million users and started having scalability problems”, which then spawns some story about scalability tricks. Always leaves me astonished as to how the heck some another glorified todo list/cat picture thing can rake millions of users so fast, but here we are.
I suspect there are way more niches in which tens of millions of users live, which the rest of us can just be ignorant of. It’s only when you approach a billion users that you can be sure “everyone” at least has heard the name of the service/app.
It's more interesting about the upstart companies who might get big one day.
Edit: Of course, eBay will likely continue to be allowed.
I suppose ultimately, the market is fragmenting and Apple is aiming to pull and set levels to encourage as many developers as possible to stick with the current system.
I suppose they're counting on the fact that inertia and laziness will encourage continued loyalty when it comes to non free apps.
Imagine a new developer publishes a free app without a plan for monetization, and then it goes viral. They would be on the hook for thousands of dollars.
Unless they have a reason to switch most new apps will likely stick to the old model