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How could it make more financial sense to withdraw? As long as Apple keeps selling iPhones, there's still profit to be made, App Store be damned.
by Youden 4y ago
How could it make more financial sense to withdraw?
As long as Apple keeps selling iPhones, there's still profit to be made, App Store be damned.
- adventured 4y agoIt doesn't. The parent premise - that Apple is going to be severely harmed financially by any of this - is something far beyond silly. Apple will barely see a dent from it. Their profit juggernaut will keep rolling on almost exactly the same. The parent comment in question - "and eat pretty heavily into their revenues" - is confusing their personal projected wishful thinking (obviously desperately wanting big tech to falter) with actual reality (the one where Apple has no serious competitive threats in smartphones for what they do, and as such they'll keep marching on just the same).
- mike_hearn 4y agoApple clearly does have serious competitive threats to what they do, it doesn't even have majority market share in the EU. But it also won't threaten their revenues much. On platforms where users and developers do have a choice from day one (Android), the app store is sufficiently useful that most devs do choose to stick with it. It seems unlikely that Apple can't make the app store competitive on its own terms.