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But they also, you know, made the platform. Are you sure the platform would be there without their fees? Let's have a look at the Linux phone market...
by WHATDOESIT 4y ago
But they also, you know, made the platform. Are you sure the platform would be there without their fees? Let's have a look at the Linux phone market...
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoOk, why do they not force fees on apps that run on their MacOS platform then? Or what about their WebKit platform?
- WHATDOESIT 4y agoSeems like they've chosen a different business model back then and since it didn't work out so well (compare Mac/macOS market penetration to iPhone/iOS) they changed it to something that allows them to capture more revenue and use the money to develop the platform much further. And they're not forcing it on Mac because that would cause outrage and people not upgrading the OS, and desktop/laptop computers are dying anyways. Also, App Store on Mac definitely has fees. Perfectly understandable IMHO. (Webkit might be a platform to Google but it's not from Apple's point of view, it's merely one part of their platform offerings)
- christophilus 4y agoTIL that producing MacBooks isn’t a good business.
- WHATDOESIT 4y agoYes, it's much much smaller than the iPhone business. Of course, it'd be a huge company by itself, but Apple got to $1T thanks to iPhone, not Mac - by far.