Comment by fidotron
5 days ago
> If you really insist on making an analogy that involves McDonalds: that's like arguing that McDonalds should not be allowed to prevent Coca-Cola from telling Coca-Cola customers that they can buy Coca-Cola in places other than McDonalds. Which, yeah, they're not allowed to.
Neither the App Stores or McDonalds have any control over what you do outside of them. That's your problem, individually and collectively.
> [the App Stores does not] any control over what you do outside of them
Well, we are talking about Apple's App Store, not just an App Store, and in that case, it's Apple. So, Apple wants to exert control over what you as an app developer do outside of the App Store. That's the problem. The fact that you think that's not happening means you know it's wrong.
No, it's within the App that is distributed on the App Store.
Plenty of companies will charge you different prices for things based on whether you get them via the App Store or their website.
Except Apple tried to exert control over that, which is exactly what they got fined for, because it's illegal.
They did the equivalent of saying to Coca Cola if you discover a customer via the App Store then we get a cut of it, which is a very normal and common arrangement, even if disagreeable.
No, they did the equivalent of saying to Coca-Cola if you discover a customer via the App Store then you cannot tell them they can buy Coca-Cola from outside the App Store, too, a decidedly anti-competitive practice that also happens to be illegal in just about every European country, even without EU intervention.
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Nope. That's a lie. You're a liar. They didn't start out like that all, and to pretend otherwise is lying.
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