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Thats fair but kinda like saying a food product producer is already providing value to a store by producing goods but not paying the store any money to host the

• syshum 6y ago
  I am not sure what you said makes any sense... The food product producer is not selling to me directly, they sell to the store, who then sells to me. Apple is not selling me the app, they are very clear about this, my relationship is with the App Developer, they are just a "payment processor" So comparing the App Store to traditional retail store is no where near a proper analogy
  • breakfastduck 6y ago
    It is more like a market than a store. I buy from the stall / seller rather than the Market, but Market stalls still pay rent to the market to set up shop.
• oblio 6y ago
  Of course, as we all know, the cost of distributing 1 million digital goods is the same, and scales the same way, as distributing 1 million physical goods. There is a moral imperative that copying of software, which costs almost 0, is taxed per unit, just like physical goods, where there is a storage cost, a transport cost, etc. I'm being ironic, obviously. Apple's App Store profits show that they're basically just sharecropping developers. Their operating costs are minimal and the fact that they're allowed to charge per unit, like they're Walmart and have to stock actual shelves, is quite ridiculous.