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Do Shopify next! And Apple's 30% tax is literally outrageous!
by hrdwdmrbl 3y ago
Do Shopify next! And Apple's 30% tax is literally outrageous!
- hrdwdmrbl 3y agoAlso do the fact that you never own what you "buy". Buy means buy. Period. Amazon, Audible, Google Play, Apple TV, etc. I would like to _own_!
- rob74 3y agoThen you are in the minority unfortunately. Just look at music - you can buy DRM-free music online without problems, but people still prefer to pay for Spotify...
- hrdwdmrbl 3y agoStreaming is a different matter. I agree that you don't own anything if you stream. I also don't think lack of popularity for "buying" is a reason not to have a reasonable rule about the definition of "buying".
- softwaredoug 3y agoHow is Shopify a monopoly? There's all kinds of competitors for making online stores
- hrdwdmrbl 3y agoThey force sellers to use their payment processor. If you don't, they charge an extra 0.5% markup on top, which basically means that no 3rd party payment processor can be competitive on price. I think you can also measure their power in the same way as Amazon - The % of fees that they capture as a percent of sales volume goes up every year. Slow squeeze.
- kortilla 3y agoThat’s not a monopoly. Movie theaters also force you to buy their popcorn rather than bringing in your own.
- hrdwdmrbl 3y agoBut then by that logic any action by any platform is never illegal. It's their platform, they can do whatever they want. If you don't like, don't use their platform, right? Is that what you're saying? I'm not totally unsympathetic to that POV, but in practice I guess it doesn't seem to be working out so well...