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Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Bro legit question, why can't all the app developers pull their app from apple store. Within no time apple will change its tune

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because app developers have to jump through a lot of hoops to get into the app store, and even if every single app was pulled then the developers would have to jump through all those hoops again. And this time, Apple won't make it easy. Meanwhile, they are hemorrhaging money for every minute their app is not on the app store. On the other hand, Apple would give incentives to new applicants to replace everything that was pulled, and the app store returns to relatively normal within 24 hours since there are tons of apps out there that just aren't popular enough to be on the app store at the moment. Would you want to be the first developer to pull their app?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It would take a google or a Meta to pull out for Apple to actually care. Which is why they already have special deals around the general rules anyway

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Would you pay for the missed income then? Who would?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Apple only has this power because its users are a major source of income for developers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The 30% fee developers keep complaining about has been in place from the start, so they really should have protested the app store at launch. Now they're too dependent on app revenue for any kind of protest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Apple recently became the number one smart phone manufacturer in the world (not just NA), and have 61% of the US market.

Nobody with a brain is pulling out of that.