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With the current power of Apple ecosystem, I still wonder how long will 30% fee exist. It is monopoly, isn't it?
by quyleanh 4y ago
With the current power of Apple ecosystem, I still wonder how long will 30% fee exist.
It is monopoly, isn't it?
- fazfq 4y agoA monopoly? They don't even have 50% market share... in some European countries I think they don't even have 20%
- MonkeyClub 4y agoYep, not a monopoly, just a market bully applying mafia-like extortionary tactics. "You want your app on the app store? We want a cut, or the app may have an accident. Spontaneously combust or something. These things happen, you know."
- iwillbenice 4y ago> Yep, not a monopoly, just a market bully applying mafia-like extortionary tactics. Yeah that's totally it. It couldn't be that people like to have a phone that gets security updates for more than 2 years. Or having an AppStore that is policed in any meaningful way that keeps blatant spam and data-slurping apps out. Or any other numerous things that the Android ecosystem is totally fucked up on. I love Apple haters- They rarely ever make sense and just come off as bitter.
- mort96 4y agoThat's completely unrelated though? Of course people do like to have a phone that gets security updates for more than 2 years. Apple makes a phone which gets security updates for more than 2 years, and also is applying mafia-like extortionary tactics.
- MonkeyClub 4y ago> I love Apple haters- They rarely ever make sense and just come off as bitter. Whether I hate or love Apple as a company doesn't (inversely) weigh in on my opinion on Google - same sh*t different mafia :) To be fair, I "love" (some) Apple products and software, though they tend to be older incarnations. (But that's true for almost anything - newer versions become too "loud" for me.) Conversely, I "hate" some business practices (and tech choices). But I'm not a fanboy of either, I just occasionally come across their products. And I agree on the comment on the Android ecosystem. Which goes some way to say that a totalitarian mafia is better than a laissez-faire mafia. I wonder whether this also means that cathedrals are better than bazaars?
- luckylion 4y agoWho has the other 80% of the iOS apps market in those countries?
- fazfq 4y agoWhat a way of defining a monopoly. Tesco has a monopoly on Tesco.
- ehvatum 4y agoOf course, when I buy a lawn mower at Tesco, Tesco demands 30% of the cost from gas stations for any lawn mower fuel I purchase. So, Apple and Tesco’s abuse of their market power are directly comparable, and your bumper sticker slogan logic is sound.
- fazfq 4y agoBuy your lawn mower somewhere else
- Avamander 4y agoDuopoly, pardon the mistake.
- anton96 4y agoThe total situation of the smartphone market is a duopoly anyway so it isn't pretty great. Worse now, is that android is getting increasingly limited in term of side loading and rooting limitations.
- quyleanh 4y agoI still miss the Windows Phone day... Such a big mistake from Microsoft.
- seydor 4y agoeither monopoly or cartel or mafia rule. But it's not like people are forced to use apple, nor should we force apple to stop taking their tax. But with great money comes great responsibility, Apple should be 30% financially liable for anything that happens to the makers of the apps they host as well. Not sure if it s legally valid, but we can make it so.
- gausswho 4y agoClaiming something is a monopoly provides gravitas to an argument, at the high cost of the inevitable semantic dithering of how to define one. I argue that anytime you'd want to use this word, an alternative exists that is as potent without this drawback. Some options: anti-competitive, anti-market, rent-seeking, bullying. Please suggest others!
- gamblor956 4y agoAntitrust law doesn't require a violator to be a monopoly, just that they abuse their market position in anti-competitive ways.