Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoI was talking about the point you made in your first paragraph. Where businesses would suddenly start providing their apps only in third party stores.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Well you weren’t very specific, so I wasn’t sure which point(s) you were disagreeing with.
I’m sure there are a number of apps which were only available on one storefront (Google, Samsung, F-Droid etc.).
China is in an even worse spot, as Google is outright banned - there are a dozen or so competing Android app stores; however their saving grace is that literally every digital transaction goes through either Weixin or AliPay - so there’s a somewhat lessened risk of credit card fraud.
Why would smaller, niche apps move to alternative stores on iOS? To (rightfully) avoid the excessive fees charged - so yes, a restaurant would be a prime example of someone not be willing / able to give 30% to Apple (nor should they, it’s downright extortion).