@Liliana @theresnotime Can confirm, Liliana wrote content. No comment on whether I held her hostage or not 😈
I hope two things happen here.
1) The developers who release apps on Apple devices, whether they plan to use the new terms or not, kick up an almighty fuss about it.
2) The EU takes action. This *is* anti-competitive. Any developer who wants to use either a third party app store, or alternate payment processor must opt into the new terms. And by doing so, they run the risk of any viral app being financially ruinous.
This is the same flaw that Unity's proposed runtime fee had. If your app gets lots of installs, regardless of how much or little your app makes in revenue, you now owe money. And like with Unity, you could quite easily wind up owing more to Apple in this Core Technology Fee than you make from the app.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine)#Runtime_fee
Lets say you release an app. And you either don't monetise it or it doesn't monetise well. And a year after its release, it goes viral. Suddenly you have 10,000,000 installs, and again you now owe Apple €375,000 for that year.
So lets say you release an app, and you either don't monetise it (no in-app purchases or adverts) or it doesn't monetise well. And the app goes viral. Suddenly you have 10,000,000 installs. According to the fee calculator, you now owe Apple €375,000 for that year.
So how could this be financially ruinous? As part of these changes, Apple will now be charging app developers €0.50 for the first install of their app in a 12 month period, and €0.50 for every additional install over 1,000,000 installs. You are required to opt into this fee structure to release apps on either third party app stores, or to use alternate payment providers.
Context behind this announcement is in the link below, but TLDR; the EU have forced Apple to allow third party app stores on iOS devices.
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This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.
The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.
In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.
The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.
This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.
Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.
#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS
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