There is no contradiction in anything you just said. To defend agains Hamas is a necessity. To try and help humans in pain as well.

They threatened taking away Hungary’s voting power in EU altogether . Apparently there is a process to do that.

Replace “Windows” with “Windows Phone”.

Again, it is not every time at all. Its after 1 MILLION first-time installs (per user, not devcie) in the last 12 months. This is an incredibly large number of installs!

Also it is 1M users annually, i.e. just in the past 12 months. A significant detail.

Also there is a fee waiver for certain devs, like NPOs and educational orgs. Overall there is a TON of great stuff coming to EU and absolutely no negatives.

Zero negatives, NOTHING is getting worse, and a lot is getting much much better.

Read it again:

The new business terms for iOS apps in the EU have three elements: Reduced commission — iOS apps on the App Store will pay a reduced commission of either 10 percent (for the vast majority of developers, and subscriptions following their first year) or 17 percent on transactions for digital goods and services.

Qouted verbatm from here: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/

There is NO 30% fee anymore, it is going to be 10% for most, 17% for some

You are saying this as if 1M users is something that just happens overnight. This is a huge number, and there are very few non-profit generating apps which have that kind of reach.

The EXISTING fees have changed, there is no 30% fee. It’s 17% now.

Full access to NFC, bring your own browser engine, zero fees on third party stores, the changes are genuinely positive. What makes you say they feel like “retaliation”?

Yeah the Apple doc is all about iOS, not mentioning iPhone or iPad, which made it non-obvious. Especially since both products used to run iOS in the past.

Not a single Apple user has complained about this in my circles. Many non-EU are envious though.

There is no 30% fee anymore. All the hate so far I find entirely unjustified, the changes are all really positive.

You can argue it can be better, but saying it’s “retaliation” is a bit extreme.

Not being on iPad is not useless. It will just hurt the iPad platform, not the other way around. Nobody really cares that much about it except some niche creative products anyway.

1M users is a huge number. How many as popular apps there will be, ever?

I visited Italy last summer, enjoyed it a lot, but let me tell you the trains’ timing was a mess, perhaps the most stressful part of the trip. Never on time and in a bad way (so it eats up any connection buffer time). Well, after the car rental, but that’s another story.

This is the first I hear about the changes being iPhone-only, where did you read they are not coming to iPad?

edit: ah looks like some 4y ago Apple switched to a separate iPadOS. Used to be that iOS was both for phones and tablets.

Not sure what you mean, the announced changes are pretty much the best thing ever to happen to the Apple eco-system. The only bad part about them is they’re restricted to EU.

I love visiting Portugal, been a few times to Lisbon, amazing city, and to the Algarve region. Visiting Porto is still on my todo list, I hear it’s really nice too.

Berlin is one of my favourite cities, it has a special vibe!

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