Can you sense it ? The Apple world is a - bombilation with something . Is it bees ? That would be exciting . It has n’t been bees since that fateful summer of ’ 13 when a laid - off Scott Forstall lead up beekeeping in an attempt to detain active .
But , no , it ’s not bee this meter .
consort to Mark Gurman , while the Apple headset will be the headliner for this year ’s WWDC keynote , another announcement will also rock the Apple humanity .
Apple is working to modernize the software to open up the iPhone to sideloading — the downloading of apps outside of its official computer memory — to comply with new European regulating by next class .
Now , before you get all excited or hot and bothered or relentlessly prick by bees , commemorate that this is Apple we ’re talking about here . The company has a strict insurance policy of giving a millimetre when regulator legally mandate an column inch .
“ What are they gon na do?Fineus ? Ha - ha - haaaa ! We can pay your ten - of - zillion - of - dollars - a - week fine until the heat expiry of the world and never observe it ! ”
Not an actual quote but it might as well be .
As you’re able to imagine , this rumour has people all atwitter , even on Mastodon . Marco Arment commented ona spot from MacRumorsmaking the call developer would no longer have to ante up Apple ’s 15 to 30 percentage fee :
Not a chance . Apple will just apply another method to collect their “ commission”:https://developer.apple.com / support / storekit - external - entitlement/
The linkup Arment provides is to Apple ’s policy for dating apps in the Netherlands , where the party detail its expectations for continuing to be paid even if the developer employ their own defrayment system .
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The Macalope believe Arment is veracious , that Apple will still try out to get paid for apps that are side - load up , at the very least as a start position . It would require further rule to get the company to allow the variety of loose - wheeling , anything break down side - charge they used on smartphones in the sometime west .
Arment goes on :
commemorate : Tim Cook regard our customer as THEIR customers , our sales as THEIR sales , and the 30 % as what they truly merit for adorn us with a weapons platform that we provide no other economic value to .
Indeed . Which is kind of curious when you think about how Tim Cook described the App Store inhis audience withGQall of two weeks ago :
“ The App Store we developed was about create a trusted place where developers and users could get along together in a two - sided transaction , ” Cook says .
No one else involved in that transaction , Tim ?
It for sure seems a mussy business having to get developer to cover gross outside the App Store ’s payment processing , but the Macalope ca n’t believe Apple would be unforced to just let that money go . If it did , it would risk turning the iOS App Store into the not destitute wasteland but surely 2nd - rate regional mall that the Mac App Store represents . The kind of mall with a Ross Dress For Less as its anchor . The kind of shopping mall with generic soda machines alternatively of Coke . Ironically , the sort of promenade with a third - party Apple reseller instead of an Apple Store .
If developers are able-bodied to charge the same amount and take 100 percent of the gross , the only cause they would stay on the App Store is for discovery . And if you ’re staying on the App Store for that … well , God help you .
look at the quote from Cook again , the Macalope thinks he figure out what Cook really meant . It ’s not one two - sided transaction . It ’s two two - sided transactions . One between the developer and Apple and one between the client and Apple .
That make more sense .
