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> Imagine being a competitor and then finding out the company that is crushing you had a secret deal to pay nothing while you struggled every month to pay royal

> Imagine being a competitor and then finding out the company that is crushing you had a secret deal to pay nothing while you struggled every month to pay royalties and were told over and over by the parent company that “it was the best they could do.” Imagine you’re an also ran streaming service and found out that AWS gave a special deal to Netflix and they had reduced rates Or imagine you’re selling “Joe Bobs Cola” and that Coke had a special deal with Walmart. This is not new. You really think big vendors are getting the same deals as everyone else?

joekrill 3y ago
The difference is that you can easily sell Joe Bob's Cola at many other retailers and still reach a huge amount of customers. Your streaming service can use Azure, GCP, or any number of other options. But if you want to distribute your mobile app you are essentially forced to use Google Play and App Store, and you must give Google and Apple their 30% (or whatever percentage it is now) cut. We can argue that you can distribute your app other ways (at least on Android), but that's not even comparable because of the artificial barriers that are put in place to make that difficult.