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> First, you're free to choose other forms of payment. Visa isn't holding a gun to your head. And you're free to choose another phone vendor. Apple isn't holdi
by Sebb767 5y ago
> First, you're free to choose other forms of payment. Visa isn't holding a gun to your head.
And you're free to choose another phone vendor. Apple isn't holding a gun to your head.
> I know many sellers simply adjust their prices if you're paying credit -- see almost every gas station in the US. You can't do that with Apple.
You can't do that with PayPal, either.
> I have no idea how I benefit from Apple's fees. Seriously.
The host the AppStore for you; allow you to search, access and download all apps and provide an infrastructure for updates and payment. Plus, they're doing basic fraud checking [0] and check that apps adhere to a basic quality and usability standard.
It's a very different topic whether the 30% cut is too much, but its not like Apple does not provide anything in return.
[0] Other comments pointed out that they failed quite badly in a case, but there's a difference between bad service and no service.
- heavyset_go 5y ago> And you're free to choose another phone vendor. Apple isn't holding a gun to your head. You're "free" to choose one side of the same coin, because Apple and Google have a duopoly in the mobile app distribution market. They both abuse that market dominance to prevent competition in the mobile app distribution market from offering consumers better, more efficient and cheaper options. Google prevents mobile app distribution competitors from competing with the Play Store on feature parity because user installable 3rd party mobile app stores cannot implement automatic upgrades, background installation of apps, or batch installs of apps like the Play Store can.
- Dma54rhs 5y agoAnd you're free to use another ISP or start digging your own Fibre cables. The duopoly has extreme power over our lines and the impact is just like with utilities.