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Musk is delaying Twitter’s paid verification to avoid Apple’s 30 percent cut
- xrayarx 4y agoApple’s tax has been in effect for years, but apparently is enforced inconsistently. Also there are two EU investigations into their practices. Apple has been fined for billions before.
- eesmith 4y agoYes, Apple's well-known 30% revenue sharing cut has been around for a long, long time. It's not a "tax." Calling it one is a shibboleth which declares your allegiance to Musk's marketing.
- josephcsible 4y agoPeople have called it a tax long before Musk bought Twitter. And once you buy an iPhone, it's yours, so you shouldn't have to pay Apple 30% of all financial transactions you ever conduct with it.
- spacedcowboy 4y agoOnce you buy a car, it’s yours, so you shouldn’t have to pay gas companies 100% of all fuel transactions you ever use to drive it anywhere. Apps are the lifeblood of a smartphone. Everyone who buys an iPhone knows they’ll be spending money on apps too, and the 30%, or 15%, or free or whatever is hardly a secret to those that care about it.
- TigeriusKirk 4y agoThere's a case for Apple taking a cut on app sales themselves. There's a lot less of a case for them taking such a giant cut of sales within the apps. Obviously they can, but in my opinion it's an absurdly high cut.
- josephcsible 4y agoThe manufacturer of your car doesn't get a 30% cut of the price of the fuel it uses.
- TigeriusKirk 4y ago>Calling it one is a shibboleth which declares your allegiance to Musk's marketing. Nope. This is a very long running thing, Musk is just the current high profile face of it.
- eesmith 4y agoYou are right. It's still not a tax.
- quantified 4y agoSo, they're giving up their revenue to deny someone else's theirs? I'm of the opinion that the 30% should have dropped quite a bit a while back, and the terms should be more favorable to the devs, but still...