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by kj99 3y ago
So what?
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by kj99 3y ago
> The headline is true for the 99% of apps that cost a dollar or less. If they succeed and make ten mil, Apple takes at least 62%. I'm not going to assume good faith. As written, the statement: "If you make $10M in sales, Apple
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by kj99 3y ago
Yes it does.
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by kj99 3y ago
When it's only the bad messengers who are shouting loudest, you should pay attention.
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by kj99 3y ago
If you think that Apple's platform brings no value then sure.
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by kj99 3y ago
The iPhone sold at a huge profit margin before there even was a store so this is obviously false.
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by kj99 3y ago
Seems pretty reasonable since they have paid nothing for a giant distribution mechanism for almost 15 years. One of the chief complaints about the 15/30% fee has been that people like Meta pay nothing and are subsidized by everyone els
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by kj99 3y ago
Spotify, the company best known for paying artists almost nothing for their music.
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by kj99 3y ago
The people dismissing this may well have the technical knowledge to avoid problems, but that’s not how most people work. Most people are influenced by advertising, their friends, social networks etc. It’s pretty easy to persuade someone to
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by kj99 3y ago
It’s absolutely misleading to the point of bordering on a lie. There are an arbitrary number of ways to reach $10M in sales and only one of them gives Apple a cut of $6.2M. Every other possible way gives Apple a lot less. Not qualifying i
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by kj99 3y ago
“Hold the world hostage”? Please. Developers can certainly choose Android to develop features that Apple prevents them from doing. If Apple was really holding back progress, it wouldn’t take long for consumers to start choosing the superio
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by kj99 3y ago
And that 1.99 app would pay 25% to Apple, which is lower than the current 30%.
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by kj99 3y ago
Perhaps expecting Apple to subsidize their apps was always unreasonable.
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by kj99 3y ago
99% of paid iPhone apps don’t have a million installs.
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by kj99 3y ago
I think you’ve shown the flaw in your own reasoning then. “ Ongoing investments in tools, technologies, and services …” It’s not just the SDK.
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by kj99 3y ago
Where do they say ‘core platform service’ are the SDK and tools? I think you’re just making that up.
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by kj99 3y ago
According to whom?
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by kj99 3y ago
“To develop apps for distribution.” It doesn’t say the fee covers distribution - only development.
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by kj99 3y ago
That's true but it doesn't contradict my point about a $1 app with 10 million installs. In any case, a free app can always be released under the current terms. I think the obvious point is that free to consumer apps still cost som
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by kj99 3y ago
If it's an edge case then we can agree that it's misleading not to point that out. The statement in the tweet is actually false in every case of making $10M in sales except this precise edge case.
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by kj99 3y ago
$1 apps that make more than $10,000,000 in annual revenue?
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by kj99 3y ago
Yup - this example is deliberately cooked to create a misleading impression.
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by kj99 3y ago
That may be true in general. I think you are missing the point about tech jobs in Europe paying so much less than in the US.
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by kj99 3y ago
Anyone can sue over unlawful contract terms without needing to breach the contract. The one finding in Epic’s favor was that Apple violated California’s Unfair Competition law by preventing Epic from linking to an outside payment method. Ep
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by kj99 3y ago
Then unlock it. The law explicitly allows jailbreaking.
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by kj99 3y ago
That’s simply a false statement, and it’s hard for me to believe you don’t know that, since it’s easily checked.
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by kj99 3y ago
It’s not a stretch at all. The court explicitly found against Epic on this point.
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by kj99 3y ago
Perhaps the people who thought this would somehow make iOS like the Mac are interpreting the law in the stupidest way possible because they don’t understand commercial law. The EU isn’t a dictatorship. Courts there still follow precedent an
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by kj99 3y ago
No they don’t. You can do whatever you like with the physical device.
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by kj99 3y ago
Intention doesn’t matter. What matters is whether the intention is expressed through the law. Not every intention can be, at least not in a state that actually respects the rule of law.

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