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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tot up his voice to those criticizing Apple ’s compliance with theEU ’s new Digital Markets Act ( DMA ) regularization , which forces Apple to open up its App Store and permit developers to apply their own payment system , among other thing . During Meta ’s Q4 lucre call this afternoon , Zuckerberg reply to an investor question asking for Meta ’s thoughts on the DMA by saying Apple ’s new rules were “ so onerous ” that he would be surprised if any developer adopted them .
The Modern regulations were meant to increase competitor in the app economy by allowing other company to run their own app stores and compile their own defrayal , which would , in theory , allow them to go around Apple ’s perpetration and fees . But Apple ’s compliancy with the DMA contract delegation but tot other , young fees — including a new “ Core Technology Fee ” — that would apply to any developer who adopted the DMA rules , regardless of where their app was distributed , including on the App Store . Otherwise , Apple said developer could prefer to rest on the same deputation complex body part that exists today , where Apple ingest a 15 % to 30 % cutting off of in - app purchase revenues , calculate on the app ’s reach and other factors .
Had the DMA been written to be more airtight , Meta could have used the new jurisprudence to launch its own app store . It had once toy with the approximation of offering a Facebook Games store , for example , but Apple ’s rules force Facebook to get rid of any actual gameplay functionality in the app . Meta finally give up , close down the app in 2022 , two years after its launch .
“ I do n’t reckon that the Apple affair is going to have any difference for us because I think that the way that they ’ve implemented it , I would be very surprised if any developer chose to go into the substitute app store that they have , ” Zuckerberg told investors . “ They ’ve made it so burdensome , and I call back , so at odds with the intention of what the EU regulating was that I think it ’s just going to be very hard for anyone — including ourselves — to really seriously think of what they ’re doing there . ”
Meta joins other technical school companies that have criticized Apple ’s complaisance with the DMA , includingEpic Games , Spotify , MozillaandMicrosoft . Epic Games , which sued Apple over antimonopoly issues and mostly lost , forebode Apple ’s DMA rule “ malicious compliance ” and full of “ junk fees . ” Spotify dub them “ extortion ” and a “ total farce , ” and Microsoft enounce they were a “ whole tone in the wrong focal point . ” Another famous Apple critic , Match , said it had n’t yet decidedif it will prefer into the new DMA rules , as it ’s still probe them .
Apple ’s answer to EU ’s gatekeeper rules is new ‘ core technical school ’ fee for apps
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Spotify call Apple ’s DMA compliance plan ‘ extortion ’ and a ‘ complete and total farce ’
Epic Games CEO calls out Apple ’s DMA rules as ‘ malicious obligingness ’ and full of ‘ debris fees ’
