{"id":29599,"date":"2020-07-28T16:58:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T20:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29599"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:10:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:10:57","slug":"schiller-interview-before-the-app-store-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/28\/schiller-interview-before-the-app-store-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Schiller Interview Before the App Store Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-tech-congress-apple-idUSKCN24T1WY\">Stephen Nellis<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/07\/28\/schiller-app-store-supports-developers\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-tech-congress-apple-idUSKCN24T1WY\"><p>But when the App Store launched in 2008 with 500 apps, Apple executives viewed it as an experiment in offering a compellingly low commission rate to attract developers, Philip W. Schiller, Apple&rsquo;s senior vice president of worldwide marketing and top executive for the App Store, told Reuters in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the things we came up with is, we&rsquo;re going to treat all apps in the App Store the same - one set of rules for everybody, no special deals, no special terms, no special code, everything applies to all developers the same. [&#8230;]&rdquo; Schiller said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Repeating <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1288151223028322304\">this<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Contains_ENG\/status\/1288224314433699841\">doesn&rsquo;t<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/waynema\/status\/1288221211575517184\">make<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/1288224756769095681\">it<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_inside\/status\/1288225600541544449\">so<\/a>. It was a high rate compared with the alternatives at the time, and there most definitely are different rules, different ways of enforcing the rules, and special deals.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/22\/another-apple-funded-app-store-study\/\">Another Apple-Funded App Store Study<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"schiller-interview-before-the-app-store-hearing-update-2020-07-30\">Update (2020-07-30): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/reuters-schiller-antitrust\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Nellis (via MacRumors): But when the App Store launched in 2008 with 500 apps, Apple executives viewed it as an experiment in offering a compellingly low commission rate to attract developers, Philip W. Schiller, Apple&rsquo;s senior vice president of worldwide marketing and top executive for the App Store, told Reuters in an interview. &ldquo;One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-07-28T20:58:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"ad2da8df-bf1a-4e88-984c-f920e8280f01","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-18T11:11:00Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ArS2o378aToiYTPkg6CgPAQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,91,101,31,1667,1372],"class_list":["post-29599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-phil-schiller"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29628,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29599\/revisions\/29628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}