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A lot of people justify Google and Apple's 30% because they provide an app store and distribution. But Android is Android because of these apps. Without them i
by Crazyontap 7y ago
A lot of people justify Google and Apple's 30% because they provide an app store and distribution.
But Android is Android because of these apps. Without them it would be like the Windows phone which was nice but didn't get enough apps on it and so it failed.
These companies depend on our apps as much as we depend on their app store for distribution.
Fuck apple for starting this walled garden and creating a parasitic relationship rather than a symbiotic relationship.
- sjwright 7y ago"Android is Android because of these apps" but "Fuck Apple"? I don't understand.
- Crazyontap 7y agoI said: > Fuck apple for starting this walled garden IIRC apple started it and now all the big players are following suite.. including even Windows 10 which has it's own app store and similar cut.
- bagacrap 7y agoTBH Google Maps was the killer app that smartphones needed to get off the ground. Out of 13 apps on my home screen, 7 are Google apps. Both Apple and Google did a little more than building the framework and then sitting back... So how do you decide what a fair cut is? Over the course of a month, given all your app and system usage, and all the pieces of software you've touched or relied on, what percent of the engineer hours required for that stuff to work came from Google/Apple vs coming from third party app makers? Is that how you decide the split? Because I have a feeling the time it took to build the 15 third party apps I might touch in a month don't come close to the level of effort required to have built the system and first party apps.