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Xbox has shared its discontent with the changes announced in the regulation of the Apple application store, describing the new terms as “a step in the wrong direction”, given the obligation for developers to continue paying fees such as “basic technology” .
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Apple announced last Friday a series of changes to its App Store application store to adapt your services to the Digital Markets Law (DMA, for its acronym in English), which will be mandatory compliance in the European Union as of March 6 of this year. These changes will be implemented with iOS 17.4.
The changes, which affect the distribution of applications in the App Store, will allow developers establish the download of your ‘software’ from an alternative store to the App Storeas well as install the ‘app’ from the external store and to have the necessary updates through it.
Following this line, Apple also announced last week that its App store is now open for video game streaming servicessuch as Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvida GeForce Now, which will be able to publish their applications and stop depending on the browser – since, until now, access to their services was limited to the web.
However, this new regulation also includes other conditions commercials for iOS applications. Those ‘apps’ distributed in the App Store will pay a reduced rate of 10 percent after the first year or 17 percent in digital transactions.
Likewise, Apple has also established a “basic technology fee”, for which iOS applications distributed from the App Store and/or an alternative application store will pay 0.50 euros for each first annual installation if they exceed the threshold of one million.
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“A STEP IN THE WRONG DIRECTION”
In this frame, Microsoft has spoken out showing its disagreement regarding these new guidelines for the App Store. This has been stated by the Xbox president Sarah Bond in a post on (former Twitter), where he has described Apple’s new policy as ““a step in the wrong direction.”
“We believe that constructive conversations drive change and progress towards open platforms and greater competition,” reflected Bond, while noting that they hope that the company led by Tim Cook “listen to feedback” on your proposed plan and “work toward a more inclusive future for all.”
We believe constructive conversations drive change and progress towards open platforms and greater competition. Apple’s new policy is a step in the wrong direction. We hope they listen to feedback on their proposed plan and work towards a more inclusive future for all. https://t.co/mDRI5KPJf6
— BondSarahBond (@BondSarah_Bond) January 29, 2024
Thus, the person responsible for the Xbox platform has shown that the company does not share the new changes adopted by Apple for the App Store, since the charging of commissions to developers is maintainedbesides impose a new rate of basic technology.
In the same way they have spoken other affected companies such as Spotifywhich has described Apple’s new rules, regarding the DMA, as a “vague and misleading” change.
“While Apple has behaved badly for years, what they did yesterday represents a new low, even for them,” he said. Spotify CEO Daniel EK in a post on X, while detailing that this is a “classic” move by an “old and dominant” company that believes the rules do not apply to them.
Likewise, Daniel EK also reported that Apple is misrepresenting the situationby making it appear that the regulators “are to blame.” In addition, it has also made it ugly that the technology company is “pretending” that their new App Store rules have to do with security “when it is clearly a ploy to boost their own profits.”
He Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney I also know spoke about it, uglying the App Store changes like “junk rates” for downloads and new taxes on “non-processing” payments.
Apple’s plan to thwart Europe’s new Digital Markets Act law is a devious new instance of Malicious Compliance.
They are forcing developers to choose between App Store exclusivity and the store terms, which will be illegal under DMA, or accept a new also-illegal anticompetitive…— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) January 25, 2024
Source: Elcomercio
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