Comment by fidotron
6 days ago
You're the Ivan the Terrible of bad metaphors and similies. They clearly anger you to an almost amusing degree.
As I pointed out:
> You can buy any number of in game items on iOS and then go and use those same items in the Play Store version of the games, and vice versa.
To be precise you can:
1. Install a game on an iPhone
2. Sign into the game with account for that developer, or even using Facebook
3. Buy in game currency in the game, using the Apple payment processing
4. Install the game on an Android phone
5. Sign into the game with that same account
6. Use the in game currency you bought on the iPhone when playing on the Android phone
7. Buy more in game currency in the Play Store using the Google payment processing
8. Go back to the iPhone and see you have the in game currency there
What is your mental model of how all that works and why?
All the metaphors I've used are yours, Ivan. Why would they anger me? I'm not the one who came up with them :-).
What you've pointed out has no bearing whatsoever on what's being discussed here. This isn't about some stretched out definition of "payment system" that applies to those services that happen to have both iOS and Android client applications. It's strictly about what works in applications available on Apple's App Store. For many of them your point 4 doesn't even apply because they don't have an Android variant in the first place.
Let me know when you'd like to go back to discussing the actual issue from the linked article. Bye!
You're making a lot of noise to distract from the fact it is entirely possible to use other payment mechanisms for digital goods to consume in apps, and that from comparison to stores for physical goods we established that promoting other means for purchasing from the app on a given platform is an unreasonable expectation, exactly like expecting Coca Cola served in McDonalds to be allowed to be labelled "available for 1 euro less at Burger King!"
Arguably their entire position with Meta is even more unreasonable than your positions here. No wonder the EU struggles in business.
I see we're back to Coca Cola, McDonalds and Burger King. Oh, and Meta, somehow? This is about Apple, I think you're in the wrong thread.
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