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leaves Apple footing the enormous bill for providing the apps. The enormous bill of having to pay for a dozen hard drives! Oh no! That would drive the world's
by gamblor956 6y ago
leaves Apple footing the enormous bill for providing the apps.
The enormous bill of having to pay for a dozen hard drives! Oh no! That would drive the world's most valuable company into bankruptcy! If they can't charge everyone 30% they'll go out of business sometime in 10,000 years when they run out of their 11-figure cash pile!
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Apple's costs for hosting app's is already covered by the $99/year they make developers pay. They have no justification for 30% on all transactions beyond base rent-seeking.
- sokoloff 6y agoIt's not rent-seeking when you create a new thing that people value and charge for that thing.
- gamblor956 6y agoI'm okay with Apple charging a fee for hosting apps...and they do, via the annual developer fee. The problem is with Apple forcing developers to do other things unrelated to the hosting of apps, such as giving up 30% of unrelated transactions (like events, etc) that would have occurred even in the absence of the app. And indeed, that is at the heart of the EU and US antitrust investigations.