Coalition for App Fairness on today’s App Store news:
Apple clearly has no intention to comply with the DMA. Apple is introducing new fees on direct downloads and payments they do nothing to process, which violates the law.
Apple’s new “Core Technology Fee” is really problematic. I ignored it at first because I’m not expecting millions of installs. Needed a spreadsheet just to wrap my head around the theoretical ramifications.
Matthaus Woolard @manton Unforntatly im sure apples lawyers have been through the EU law with a tooth comb and are very confident they comply.
Apples move to make the core tec fee an option (even for App Store devs) is part of this as it moves it to a SDK license fee not an app distribution fee. The EU rules doe not prohibit SKD license fees dispite what would might want and they also did not require side loading just require apple to permit other avenues.
Jonathan Gulbrandsen @manton ”On 24 September 2020, Epic Games joined forces with thirteen other prominent companies—including the music streaming platform Spotify, Tinder owner Match Group, the encrypted mail service ProtonMail, and the crypto currency website Blockchain.com—to establish the Coalition for App Fairness.[7][8][9] It also includes Basecamp.[10]”
It’s like a who’s who of companies I want nothing to do with as they are all pretty terrible in their own way.
