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by etchalon 3y ago
There is no such rule, subscription service or otherwise. You can charge whatever you want on iOS. Apple does not have a favored nation clause, the way Amazon does. It's a weird myth. Developers can, and do, charge more on iOS than on
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by etchalon 3y ago
Ah, good catch. Thanks!
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by etchalon 3y ago
Yes, AAC is also patent encumbered, but the structure of the fees was apparently "better" for Apple. This was heavily discussed … Jesus, 15 years ago now … when everyone was pissed Apple didn't use MP3s. Basically, AAC was ch
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by etchalon 3y ago
> Easy: Apple explicitly forbids this. You cannot charge iOS users more than other users. This is not true. Apple has no rules regarding favored pricing. We charge 30% on iOS to cover the store fee.
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by etchalon 3y ago
VLC works.
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by etchalon 3y ago
That is ahistoric. Apple was forced into FairPlay by the labels, not by choice. They moved to non-DRM'd M4P as soon the labels let them. As for why they preferred M4P (AAC) to MP3, it was a licensing issue. MP3 was patent encumbered un
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by etchalon 3y ago
Because it's a niche use case compared to the much much broader case of "display content."
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by etchalon 3y ago
"Apple first, users second, developers last." Thus is the Apple way.
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by etchalon 3y ago
We're taking a haircut on our space. We just don't need the same amount of space now that 50% of our staff are primarily remote. We're keeping 75% of the square footage, but the "overflow" just isn't necessary
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by etchalon 3y ago
"Extra" is dependent on whether the views on X came from users who would have normally clicked through to YouTube or watch, or users who would not have clicked. This is a weirdly hard number to know.
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by etchalon 3y ago
"Apple continues to search for the Vision Pro's killer feature."
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by etchalon 3y ago
Over half-a-billion in sales for a $3500 dollar v1 product on day one. Literally only Apple could probably pull that off.
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by etchalon 3y ago
My hope is these type of "poisoning tools" become ubiquitous for all content types on the web, forcing AI companies to, you know, license things.
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by etchalon 3y ago
Digital copies on consoles still get 30%, and console agreements may include additional royalties beyond that. There is no way, on any major console, to "opt out" of the fee. Mac has the same options available to developers as Win
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by etchalon 3y ago
Because developers go where the users are. That's all that matters. Epic had to pay developers, a lot, to bootstrap the Epic store so that there were games there that mattered. And even now, with a decent selection, most PC gamers stil
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by etchalon 3y ago
Vertical integration is not, in any way, illegal.
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by etchalon 3y ago
RAW, yes.
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by etchalon 3y ago
1. If you want to include a link to an website for payment of digital goods, you have to request an entitlement from Apple. 2. As part of that entitlement, you agree to pay Apple a 27% commission on any purchases made when users click those
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by etchalon 3y ago
I am willing to make a bet that even when side-loading becomes available, it does change much. You can side-load on Android, and the Play Store's commissions are on par with Apple's. The mistake here is believing that either Store
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by etchalon 3y ago
It's OK because that's just how it worked out. One platforms norms developed before the internet and one developed after.
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by etchalon 3y ago
You absolutely have to be the most popular to be a monopoly. You can be the most popular and not be a monopoly, but the reverse is definitionally impossible.
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by etchalon 3y ago
Everyone loves a good grift.
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by etchalon 3y ago
I'd learn both, or at least start to, and find the one you like best. I don't get the point of learning something you don't enjoy working with.
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by etchalon 3y ago
You went from "the facts supported the reason" to "we don't have all the facts necessary to know if the facts supported the reason." to "from the facts we know, the reason seems sus."
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by etchalon 3y ago
It's 100% stable for me. I'm on an M3 Max, latest macOS.
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by etchalon 3y ago
They gave a reason. That doesn't mean the facts supported that reason. The employee didn't believe they did. Not closing a deal in your first month of sales is not exactly unheard of or even uncommon. Either way, WT lawsuits don&#
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by etchalon 3y ago
Nova ( https://nova.app ) It's so close to being great.
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by etchalon 3y ago
There are a host of laws regarding termination, even in at will states, especially for companies of Cloudflare's size. Giving an invalid reason that is unsupported by facts is generally a strong place for a lawyer to assert "wrong
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by etchalon 3y ago
Good for her. There isn't a "good" way to do layoffs, but "being laid off by someone you've never met before" is up there with the "bad" ways. Also, there's absolutely no reason why, in the event
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by etchalon 3y ago
App Stores are discovery mechanisms. PWA + thin wrapper is a pretty great combination.

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