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Isn't this the most objectionable part? If Apple wants to charge 30%, fine, the companies impacted can just raise their iOS prices by 30% and pass it on to the
by krschultz 16y ago
Isn't this the most objectionable part?
If Apple wants to charge 30%, fine, the companies impacted can just raise their iOS prices by 30% and pass it on to the customer. The higher cost of apps and subscriptions is not a tradeoff to buying Apple products. If customers see it as a bad tradeoff, they will by Android or WP7.
Instead, Apple is strong arming the content suppliers on their prices on other platforms. "make your price the same or less on our platform, or we will kick you off". That seems like the definition of anti-competitive. Why should Apple have any say what-so-ever on the price of pandora on Android?
If Google wants to pay Netflix and Pandora a fee so that their apps are bundled with Android phones for free, Netflix and Pandora could not take the money and give it away for free to users without getting kicked off of the Apple ecosystem. How is this not anti-competitive? Where is the FTC?