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I'm too old for this. That's great. But what's more important to me is: - Apple being hostile to developers: app approvals (Hey) - Apple hardware being hard o
by msie 6y ago
I'm too old for this. That's great. But what's more important to me is:
- Apple being hostile to developers: app approvals (Hey)
- Apple hardware being hard or impossible to upgrade
- MacOS turning into iOS (don't want)
- heyoni 6y agoHow is that last one bad? It looks like it's just a design change "with crisp new icons". We like icons, right?
- valuearb 6y agoApple isn’t being hostile to Hey! They are being hostile to Apple. Imagine building a large new Paid App that you expect Apple to host and distribute for free worldwide by gaming their payment system.
- damnyou 6y agoWhy do you think that is not a completely reasonable expectation?
- valuearb 6y agoIt’s entirely reasonable for a free service. Apple hosts and distributes terabytes of free apps. But Hey! isn’t free, they just charge you using a different platform. Maybe 30% is too much for Apple to charge them, but zero percent is definitely too low.
- damnyou 6y agoApple is welcome to charge 2.9% the way other payment processors do. That is reasonable. 30% is a protection racket.
- valuearb 6y agoIf you actually believe running the App Store is the same as payment processing alone there is no discussion to be had with you.
- damnyou 6y agoWell, clearly, "value arb", given that Apple has no competition among iOS app stores.
- valuearb 6y agoVisa/MC don’t host and distribute petabytes of data for card holders. They don’t provide hundreds of store fronts with localized content and marketing. They don’t provide extensive developer kits and support anywhere on par with what Apple does. The payment processor argument means you really don’t have any clue to what Apple App Store services are or do.
- damnyou 6y agoIf Apple is so confident then it can allow alternative app stores and drop its monopoly enforced through technology.
- valuearb 6y agoNo one isn’t saying they don’t make high margins on their App Store revenues, just that comparing the App Store to a mere payment processor is ridiculous and indicative of not even understanding what it does.
- msie 6y agoLook at Netflix app. They are doing the same thing but being treated differently.