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LurkerJ on 25 August 2020
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padib said:
LurkerJ said:

In other words, you're drawing lines where it's convenient for you to draw them?

If anything, the fact that iOS allows you to do a lot more than just gaming and without charging the consumers or the developers most of the time, makes iOS a lot friendlier environment to developers than eShop.

  • Apps that are free to you aren’t charged by Apple.
  • Apps that earn revenue exclusively through advertising — like free games & Youtube — aren’t charged by Apple.
  • App business transactions where users sign up or purchase digital goods outside the app aren’t charged by Apple (including Spotify).
  • Apps that sell physical goods — including ride-hailing and food delivery services, to name a few — aren’t charged by Apple
  • 84 percent of the apps in the App Store pay nothing to Apple when you download or use the app

And again, this laser-focus criticism of Apple when they only have less than 25% market share globally makes no sense whatsoever. And to clarify, I don't believe the Switch is a monopoly for creating the sole exciting handheld environment that devs profit from, because that environment wouldn't have existed without their product in the first place. 

Stop this garbage talk about subjectivity, I'm being respectful to you. 

There are many more options than the Switch for gaming. For smartdevice computing, depending on the region, Apple has a very big marketshare, which should concern you.

The rules you listed are true today, but they are dictated by a company that has too much power at the moment, shared with only one rival: Google.

And no surprise that Google is also being watched for monopolistic practices in the way it buys out and kills competition, among other things. Apple is also currently under an anti-trust hearing, along with Amazon and Facebook.

Garbage talk about subjectivity? wat. 

"I am being respectful to you"? wat.

Are you really gonna act offended when my post is completely free of insults or condescending behaviors? Jeez.

Back to the topic at hand: 

"Marketshare by region" and "mobile smartphone computing" are just lines you draw to dictate the rules of what classifies what products can be classified as a monopoly and what products don't. 

Again, what other options do have if you want to do "mobile handheld gaming" besides the Switch? What are these "many more options" ?

Last edited by LurkerJ - on 25 August 2020