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All new consoles are sold with profit or breaking even so I don't know where this assertion even comes from. Not to mention that they happily double dip by tax
by izacus 4y ago
All new consoles are sold with profit or breaking even so I don't know where this assertion even comes from.
Not to mention that they happily double dip by taxing for games, charging online service subscriptions and getting extra revenue via online stores.
- ksec 4y ago>Double Dip. So now earning profits on hardware and charging for software or services are double dipping? I really hate the Apple used this term and it is now spreading everywhere.
- Hamuko 4y agoI wonder how many dips we can count Apple on. First they make money from the hardware. Then they charge money for iCloud storage beyond 5 GB so you can actually get your hardware backed up (I presume this counts as a dip if console "charging online service subscriptions" counts). Then they charge developers a hundred bucks per year to get application on the App Store. Then they take 15/30% off of all digital sales. And finally they charge the developers for keyword search ads on the App Store (so that when I search for "Minecraft", my first hit is an ad for "The Ants: Underground Kingdom"). Am I forgetting something?
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