They can just creep up the fee bit by bit and they can say, hey itâs not as bad as that runtime fee we announced in 2023
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DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org â¨1⊠â¨year⊠agoI know I wonât be using it. There is no guarantee that they wonât do something similar in the future.
PlushySD@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Not just that but what other new fee will they create and force on developers out of nowhere?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
And therein lies the rub.
Theyâve proven they canât be trusted. The people who devised and attempted to enact this plan - the exec team - have not gone anywhere, and they arenât going to. They have shown the industry who they are, and they clearly donât give a shit about business ethics or even legality (the AppLovin shit smells an awful fucking lot like anticompetitive market interference). They will definitely try something similar in the future.