Don’t tell him! Corporations being hit with massive fines is my kink!
Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wow, they do this just 2 days after being fined $2 billion by EU!
Unless you don’t know Apple, those fines have a tendency to increase with repeated violations.
dojan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
farcaster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
$2 billion, that’s 4 whole days of profits for them.
Aux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
$2B is actually 2% of their profit. That’s 7.3 days.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah yes but those people love money so much, they are probably devastated.🤪
Aux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So you wouldn’t mind if 2% of your yearly salary after tax would disappear, right?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Buff
That’s a false comparison. Salary after tax is not comparable to profit. Profit is after ALL expenses. So if I did something really really stupid, and was fined 2% after ALL expenses, I’d say I got off easy.
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 10 months ago
2% of nothing is still nothing 🤷
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
There’s no wording in that law that says apple has to allow third party apps for alternate app stores or anything to be made available within apples app store. More like apple just has to allow sideloading. Why would Apple want to pay for the server expense of another company by-passing giving apple a share of the profits?
I hate both companies, but if I owned Apple, I’d be after doing the same thing. Epic can get people to sodeload that crap.
ahnesampo@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
You need an Apple developer account to even make software for iOS. Alternate app stores are distributed on the web, not Apple’s App Store. Since an alternative app store is an iOS app, Apple banning their developer account means they’re banned from making one.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
They better increase quickly. Apples bank account is large.
Neato@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
$2B on day one. Double that every instance. EU will own Apple in a week or two.
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’ll just stop selling their products in the EU before that bridge is even on the horizon.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What’s not to love? Then do the same with Suckerberg please, kthxbye.