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>The race to the bottom was absolutely Apple's fault. The trend had been in that direction already. The marginal cost of software is pretty close to zero so pr
by tonyedgecombe 5y ago
>The race to the bottom was absolutely Apple's fault.
The trend had been in that direction already. The marginal cost of software is pretty close to zero so prices were always going to be squeezed towards that. It probably did accelerate the process though.
- Apocryphon 5y agoYeah, if it wasn't the App Store, it would just be piracy.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoI feel like there's a joke in there somewhere — something involving asking a developer why they dropped their software price to zero, answer: no more piracy!