forest_dweller

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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I really shouldn't reply but I really can't leave this unaddressed. > But you agree that it would increase the developer split. Thats good enough for me. Glad you agree that it would increase the developer revenue split. I neve
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> So then the game devs get more revenue share for the specific example of the Epic Game store. Great. Glad you agree. No I don't. How disingenous. The claim was that it would reduce the cost. There is no guarantee this will happen.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> So then you agree that what they offer is cheaper, and that this cheaper option is being prevent by Apple. Cool. Glad you agree! Nope. Not at all. It isn't cheaper to the consumer. You keep on conflating revenue share between wh
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Sure it does. That is because competition is being prevented. No it doesn't. The 30/70 split for revenue share is a standard thing across industries. This includes other industries that aren't related to IT at all. >
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
People seem to conflate understanding an opponents argument with accepting the opponents argument.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I do not want to lease a car. I want to own a car . I don't want to be paying monthly for something unless I absolutely have to. > That can make an enormous difference to their affordability, and should also inject a large pool of
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I think I will leave this conversation. You seem to want to engage in double speak. I have no interest in continuing.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> The anti-competitive and illegal behavior that Apple is doing is preventing alternative app stores from being on the IPhone. And that has nothing to do with the revenue share. > This actions prevents other app stores from undercutti
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
That all might be all true. But people willingly sign up to it.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Your list is companies being paid an affiliate rate. If I start linking companies that don't do affiliate stuff, they charge a lot less. I listed like for like companies. > In 2013 it was 10 billion. > People made apps in 20
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Saying it’s a power relationship is another way of saying the same thing that you are saying here. The way you frame the power imbalance is framed suggests that there is always something coercive and manipulative going on. A market rat
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
You can make transactions through the web browser. So that isn't technically true.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Most ads are £350-500 per day. VB.NET (if there are any jobs) won't be more than £350. However I am basing this on the contract market before COVID.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> When you look at other services that are just doing payment/download, it's far cheaper than 30%. Except if you look at the link that compares all similar stores. It is around about 30% except for EPIC. EPIC can afford such
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
No it isn't about power. Labour is a market and is governed by the laws of supply and demand (typically). A cleaner gets paid less because it is unskilled work and almost any able bodied person can be a cleaner. Same someone that stack
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Only the first two are affiliate behavior, and they don't apply to every purchase, and you can't opt out. What is and isn't affiliate behaviour isn't important. They are acting like an affiliate I said. It is close
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> If I have a link on my site that takes a customer directly to the store page, and they buy it, then Apple did nothing at all to earn an "affiliate" level payout. They didn't drive any traffic. The store provides you visi
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Huh? They didn't say "standard", they said "reasonable" and "ideal". I should have clarified. They was saying it (the 30%) was a case for antitrust. > The problem is that they charge that fee no ma
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> 30% is a case for antitrust given how big Apple App Store today is. 15% seems reasonable, 10% would be ideal. Not it isn't a case for anti-trust. 70/30 split whether people on here like it or not is a standard agreement for t
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Communication can do harm. It can also do good. That's kind of the point of protecting it - it's got power. If it were powerless, then fraud, misinformation campaigns, copyright infringement, insider trading, leaks of classif
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
How much is a Tesla? Many tens of thousands of pounds. They have to be a lot cheaper or I am just going to buy another second hand car and just use it as a donour car for my existing vehicle.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Actually, what you wrote was "..activist groups will quite often ignore viable solutions. This is usually because they wish to keep on being activists and keep on continuing the fight." You surmise in the text that the reject
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Not really. Maybe you shouldn't lead with an absolute that you can't possibly claim to know. > This line dismisses .. pretty much anyone advocating for change. "I proposed a solution that works for me. They don't lik
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Greenpeace There are plenty of criticisms of greenpeace in the same vain. Being skeptical of any of their claims is healthy.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Don't you find it troubling that these people don't practice what they preach? It is as if they don't really believe it.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
It highlights the very important point that activist groups will quite often ignore viable solutions. This is usually because they wish to keep on being activists and keep on continuing the fight. Thus it brings into question anything they
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
As I said. I don't know. I am not even an American. However that is one of many things that were quite odd.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Lots more Strawmen you have built. You must like building them. > For the obvious reason that if you go read voat and gab that's, um, literally what those dudes are saying. Like, I didn't make up the shit about pizzas, man. Som
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> I'm not interested in who large media say are dissenters or conspiracy theorists because I can make that judgment myself: it being trivial on first listen. Yet you are repeating exactly the same things as they do in the same manne
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
There is this attitude from those in cities that us outside of it eat mud and bang sticks together like primates. I frequently am seen as uneducated because I have a west country accent.

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