Comment on Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoProton cannot even link to FAQ or customer support pages from its apps, as Apple believes it’s possible that users will then navigate from the support page to a pricing page and upgrade their accounts without paying Apple its fee.
I didn’t realize this either.
Yeah, this also is why Apple has been so sluggish on PWAs (this is also why they won’t allow third party browsers). There is literally nothing that can be done in an app that can’t be done quicker and easier as a PWA these days. But how is Apple going to make any money if you can publish your own app and take your own payments? They would then become a hardware vendor and that would absolutely ruin them as a company.
Apple will throw everything they’ve got at this to attempt to maintain the status quo.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Hard disagree. I am on Android so I’m not sure if that makes a difference.
I hope that’s a joke.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No, I was serious, although after looking into it, I am surprised that hardware makes up 72% of their income. Perhaps they could make up the 28% software revenue shortfall with innovative new hardware and still maintain that 3.06T market cap, eh?
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
I mean they could do away with Apple Store fees altogether and still be unfathomably profitable.