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I would like nothing greater than to jot down extra about visionOS immediately, however there was some extra important information introduced earlier this week. Apple’s announcement of court-mandated modifications to the foundations permitting hyperlinks to exterior websites with different buy strategies.
I will not cowl the main points right here, as I am certain you’ve got already seen them. If not, Michael Tsai, as all the time, has an wonderful abstract of the announcement and reactions. I’ll give a few ideas, although.
Apple has been clear about the way it sees this difficulty for a number of years. I bear in mind Tim Prepare dinner mentioning the problem of amassing a 27% payment exterior the App Retailer buy course of when he was in courtroom in the course of the Epic trial in 2021, then once more when courts within the Netherlands dominated on courting apps in 2022, so there is not any excuse for being shocked. In fact, it is a a lot greater deal now the extra guideline applies within the US.
My view stays the identical as I’ve written many instances earlier than. You possibly can learn my ideas the final time this difficulty got here up in Problem 544’s remark, and I am going to even quote my conclusion from that difficulty:
I’ve stated this earlier than too, however I might assist an even bigger rethink of how the App Retailer works. A shake-up that focuses on downloads and utilization greater than taking a proportion reduce of monetary transactions. One which makes certain that the biggest corporations on the planet, who get huge worth from the platform, pay one thing as an alternative of nothing. I do not know what that mannequin seems like, however I can solely actually see modifications of that magnitude placing an finish to this present state of affairs.
I might write the identical immediately.
I do know nothing and am glad I don’t have to repair these issues. Nonetheless, it looks as if my prediction that making the smallest attainable concession after each judgment will solely make issues worse is coming true. Each transfer brings a lot adverse consideration and extra scrutiny. So, I’ll shut this remark the identical method I closed my remark in Problem 544:
As it’s, that is going to go on and on, and the inevitable result’s a multitude.
Dave Verwer 
