Wish Apple would start taking a stand again and telling foreign despots the answer is “no”. Pull all their assets out of the country and when the government blocks their ASNs, Apple can shrug and point the finger and let that government deal with the social/political backlash of millions of peoples phones turning to bricks.
There seems to be a lot of context missing from these articles.
Mercado Libre has its own payment tech. They're like a latin american Amazon+Stripe. I don't know if that plays a role in what is being disputed, but it is worth mentioning.
Mercado Libre also started distributing Disney+ content, similar to Prime. If you buy stuff often, you get a good discount in a Disney+ subscription. This seems to be related to the complaint about restrictions in digital content distribution.
The whole interaction seems to be public (email exchanges and documents, in brazillian portuguese):
From what I could grasp of the official text, there seems to be more conditions.
Apple must make the decision made by Cade public in their website, and also inform all iOS developers affected.
The law which was used (L12529) also allows more aggressive fines (let's say 43.000 per day per iOS developer), or even suspension of services. But these were not mentioned in the decision.
> The Brazilian regulator has determined that Apple should allow app developers to link to external websites for subscriptions and digital purchases. Alternatively, the company could let developers take care of payment processing themselves.
Wish Apple would start taking a stand again and telling foreign despots the answer is “no”. Pull all their assets out of the country and when the government blocks their ASNs, Apple can shrug and point the finger and let that government deal with the social/political backlash of millions of peoples phones turning to bricks.
This will probably just follow their existing precedent in other countries like South Korea and Denmark (the latter limited to dating apps?).
In those regions it’s just a reduction of 3% that covers the payment processing.
So it’ll give more choice but not enough to drive a lot of adoption, since that’s the same or below what other payment processors take as well.
There seems to be a lot of context missing from these articles.
Mercado Libre has its own payment tech. They're like a latin american Amazon+Stripe. I don't know if that plays a role in what is being disputed, but it is worth mentioning.
Mercado Libre also started distributing Disney+ content, similar to Prime. If you buy stuff often, you get a good discount in a Disney+ subscription. This seems to be related to the complaint about restrictions in digital content distribution.
The whole interaction seems to be public (email exchanges and documents, in brazillian portuguese):
https://sei.cade.gov.br/sei/modulos/pesquisa/md_pesq_process...
> Otherwise, if the iPhone maker doesn’t comply, it faces fines of $43,000 per day.
That's 0.016% of their income, if anyone was curious.
From what I could grasp of the official text, there seems to be more conditions.
Apple must make the decision made by Cade public in their website, and also inform all iOS developers affected.
The law which was used (L12529) also allows more aggressive fines (let's say 43.000 per day per iOS developer), or even suspension of services. But these were not mentioned in the decision.
> That's 0.016% of their income, if anyone was curious.
Is that 0.016% of their global income, or just in Brazil?
$43,000/0.00016 = $268,750,000 I doubt Apple sells that much a day in Brazil.
> The Brazilian regulator has determined that Apple should allow app developers to link to external websites for subscriptions and digital purchases. Alternatively, the company could let developers take care of payment processing themselves.
Is this like EU is trying/doing?