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You're thinking like a business owner. The people writing these sniping comments about the EU are acting like cult members, because Apple is a cult that happens
by kmeisthax 3y ago
You're thinking like a business owner. The people writing these sniping comments about the EU are acting like cult members, because Apple is a cult that happens to be in the form of a for-profit corporation.
To you, 30% is someone your margin and then some. To Apple fans, it's a tithe that must be paid to the cult leader.
- troupo 3y agoIt has less to do with Apple, and more to do with Americans worshiping at the altar of corporations. Anything that curbs the unfettered unlimited unchecked power of megacorps is seen as personal assault on the very idea of freedom, or free market , or some other such ideal.
- refulgentis 3y agoExcellent point - that's probably why the conversations were so much more vivid and interesting too -- we were all actively trying to figure out how to square A) building cool things for people B) being able to eat C) uncertainty if, as in the words of Stevie J, a rogue app could take down Cingular's network. In reality, my primary concerns ended up being I used the App Store payments system so I had to give up 30%, meanwhile our well-funded competitors just did a "external account subscription". Now, I've left Google, and I'm building an app that integrates multiple AI services. User places deposits and we charge out of the deposited amounts. I feel ugly and complicit in user abuse by having to charge a 30% premium over the actual cost, without being able to even mention there's another option