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minus-square520@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months ago iPhones are a closed platform. Not like consoles, they are not. Anyone can develop for them, the only barrier is a license fee and a Mac. They are essentially an app console. They have never been sold to consumers or presented to developers as anything else. They have been sold as general purpose devices that, like I said, anyone can develop for. Again, they are nothing like consoles. For what it’s worth, almost all of the in-app revenue at the center of this discussion is gaming revenue. Everything else is a rounding error. Spotify would disagree.
Not like consoles, they are not. Anyone can develop for them, the only barrier is a license fee and a Mac.
They have been sold as general purpose devices that, like I said, anyone can develop for. Again, they are nothing like consoles.
Spotify would disagree.