@machinesbleedtoo not only that, but @EUCommission actively #sabotaged any #domestic (#EU) competitiors with backfiring ideas, like demanding that #AppStores pay #VAT in the buyers' nation without having EU-wide infrastructure to make this even possible.

• Basically making an #AntiGAFAM - legislation only be complyable by the #GAFAMs unless one wants to blow all revenue for #bureaucracy and yeet the #SingleMarket!

Competitiors like #AndroidPit #AppCenter got killed by that.
https://appdevelopermagazine.com/important-announcement:-androidpit-app-center-to-close/

Whereas in #China there's still some competition, but #Huawei's #AppGallery demanding a 50% cut before taxes for #Games makes #Steam look like a saint!

@dec_hl I think something like an #App #curator site that allows #filtering / has said filters set by default as a "#SafeSearch" would be propably best...

• The core problem is that since there's no #affiliate program woth #Apple's #AppStore nor #GooglePlay and @EUCommission having killed competitiors to the latter like #AndroidPit #AppCenter with #VAT shite, there is no ethical way to monetize it once it exceeds the average #WebHoster's "unlimited traffic" plans...

Not to mention it'll get #downranked and #shadowbanned from both platfirms pretty quickly.

Exactly that is true: #Fragmentation kills the EU!

• Instead of levying #tariffs on #GAFAMs comitting #CapitalFlight and #TaxEvasion, the #EU decided to basically kill #domestic #competition with bs. like demanding that #AppStores have to pay #VAT / #GST / #SalesTax in the customers' nation.

That's why there's no #AndroidPit #AppCenter anymore!

• And I do know that #Zensursula or the @EUCommission don't really give a wet fart about that, because they want a #SurveillanceState and #PoliceState and would rather choose to die from #LateStageCapitalism than accept the necessity for #SystemChangeNotClimateChange!

Thanks again to @dw_innovation / #DWnews for that video.

#EUpol #DEpol #USpol #Trump #Draghi #Letta #Putin #Xi #WorldPolitics #Economy #SingleMarket #Destiny #Europe

@debby what's even more important is to strenghten #alternatives like @fdroidorg and to support those alongside them.

• Also @EUCommission is responsible for killing #AndroidPit & #AppBrain as domestic competitiors with bureaucratic bs like "per #EU #member #VAT payments" under the guise of combatting 'tax dodging'...

@natsume_shokogami @bingbong as typical for @EU_Commission , they shit out some "well meant" garbage because #Zensursula and other #TechIlliterate #Cyberfacists are at the helm and they want to rule and regulate shit as if only #GAFAMs exist, resulting in everything but GAFAMs getting killed in the process...

This killed independent #AppStores for #Android like #AndroidPit's #AppCenter because it was deemed a "good idea" that App Stores and Devs should be forced to tax every shitty microtransaction at the customers' juristiction. https://appdevelopermagazine.com/important-announcement:-androidpit-app-center-to-close/

And this is really infuriating because they refuse to accept that commercial freedom also means the freedom not to commence business at all if it's too painful to do so!

@ocdtrekkie @catraxx @EU_Commission yeah.

Same with the #EU making VAT mandatory to be paid at the customers' juristiction and not the tax avoidance juristiction of the #GAFAMs, which basically killed a lot of superior domestic competition like #AndroidPit's #AppCenter which had way more favourable terms for customers AND developers/publishers!
https://web.archive.org/web/20141125020445/http://www.androidpit.de/in-eigener-sache-androidpit-schliesst-sein-app-center

Sadly there's neither #ACTA nir #TTIP so the owners couldn't sue the #EU for the added costs and loss of profit...
#sarcasm

@JustinLachance @tod No.

I'm against #LinkTax as it's bad in principle and like a lot of "well-meant" ideas it'll do nothing but harm any #SmallSites, #Bloggers and #Startups.

Just like the idea of @EU_Commission to force #eCommerce - only to pay #VAT in the customer's juristiction didn't actually hurt the #GAFAMs but killed many #competitiors like #AndroidPit's #AppCenter which had way better terms for #Developers and #Customers...

https://web.archive.org/web/20141125020445/http://www.androidpit.de/in-eigener-sache-androidpit-schliesst-sein-app-center

@pluralistic Exactly!

We can see this in bs policies that only strenghtened the #GAFAMs and destroyed regional and domestic competition.

For example @EU_Commission regulations re: #VAT taxation basically killed #AndroidPit as #Android #AppStore with more favourable terms than #GooglePlay:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141125020445/http://www.androidpit.de/in-eigener-sache-androidpit-schliesst-sein-app-center

@itzzenxx @fdroidorg As shitty as #Fdroid seems to be, it's the only useable #GooglePlay alternative in the West standing since the #EU killed all competitors to #Google like #AndroidPit in 2014...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150927004422if_/http://www.androidpit.de/in-eigener-sache-androidpit-schliesst-sein-app-center

Aprèm dégoogliser son téléphone 📱 Android avec #androidpit https://www.androidpit.fr 🐸 /comment-degoogliser-android et @zaclys 🐱 https://wiki.zaclys.com/index.php/D%C3%A9googliser_votre_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9phone_Android