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This seems like such an odd argument to me. The distribution mechanism is what sells luxury devices at a huge profit margin for Apple. It's a value add for Ap
by nightski 3y ago
This seems like such an odd argument to me. The distribution mechanism is what sells luxury devices at a huge profit margin for Apple. It's a value add for Apple to have a walled garden store.
- liotier 3y agoIt is a two-sided market and Apple naturally wants a bite on both ends.
- Panini_Jones 3y agoYou're right, it's a value add for Apple. If there were no non-Apple apps, I would not buy an iPhone.
- votepaunchy 3y agoApple could individually negotiate with the top 1000+ apps. The question is of having a wide open marketplace with standardized rules. How many users need the long tail?
- kj99 3y agoThat's the opposite of a value add. What you are describing is an unavoidable cost of doing business which Apple is entitled to charge developers for.
- kj99 3y agoThe iPhone sold at a huge profit margin before there even was a store so this is obviously false.
- leereeves 3y agoOnly a few million iPhones were sold before the App Store (which was introduced in July 2008), as this chart shows: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-iphone-sales-since-3rd-quarter-2007/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho...
- kj99 3y agoSo what?