Apple ordered to open up in-app purchases in Brazil
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Mercado Libre has its own payment tech. They're like a latin american Amazon+Stripe. I don't know if that plays a role in what is being disputed, but it is worth mentioning.
Mercado Libre also started distributing Disney+ content, similar to Prime. If you buy stuff often, you get a good discount in a Disney+ subscription. This seems to be related to the complaint about restrictions in digital content distribution.
The whole interaction seems to be public (email exchanges and documents, in brazillian portuguese):
https://sei.cade.gov.br/sei/modulos/pesquisa/md_pesq_process...
That's 0.016% of their income, if anyone was curious.
Apple must make the decision made by Cade public in their website, and also inform all iOS developers affected.
The law which was used (L12529) also allows more aggressive fines (let's say 43.000 per day per iOS developer), or even suspension of services. But these were not mentioned in the decision.
Yay (/s), that'll be another "Terms and Conditions" change from Apple that all registered Apple devs receive an email for and need to sign, regardless of the new terms, in order to continue having builds notarized.
Is that 0.016% of their global income, or just in Brazil?
Is this like EU is trying/doing?
In those regions it’s just a reduction of 3% that covers the payment processing.
So it’ll give more choice but not enough to drive a lot of adoption, since that’s the same or below what other payment processors take as well.
The only pro to apple's model is that developers small and large were on equal competitive footing to consumers.
While I believe it's good that developers have a choice, the reality is that this means that larger companies will always have better margins than small operators, helping solidify their position in the market.