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The announced changes sound like retaliation. Considering Apple is acting like a sovereign state by collecting taxes from what it perceives as its subjects it looks suspiciously like an act of war.
Not sure what you mean, the announced changes are pretty much the best thing ever to happen to the Apple eco-system. The only bad part about them is they're restricted to EU.
Have you seen the โฌ0.50 "core tech fee" per app installation/year Apple wants to charge even if the app is installed from a 3rd party store? An app with 2 million users will be expected to pay 41000โฌ a month, and one with 10 million around 375000โฌ every single month, and this without counting the transaction fee.
Of course, if you comply with Apple's feudal claims then you can stay stuck in the App Store and pay a 30% sales tax (that unlike sales taxes from non-mafia institutions you aren't allowed to pass to the customers, because obviously non-apple users also have to subsidize Apple users) like a good peasant, they "generously" wave the new fee.
1M users is a huge number. How many as popular apps there will be, ever?