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Presumably it would work similar to taxes on cigarettes, alcohol etc. by discouraging excessive consumption and making low CO2 alternatives much more attractive financially.

So the societal cost of banning private jets is approximately zero? Why is it even worth discussing then?

Because the population will get much older (i.e. much less productive) before it gets much smaller. That going to cause all kinds of massive issues.

Presumably people occasionally still talk to each other

Then IMO they would be a monopoly on iOS in a similar way. You change the default search engine on Android too, most people don’t know how/don’t care/etc. Now I’m not sure that som…

Perhaps (well.. almost certainly) that would disincentivize any of the companies in these industry from innovating at all (if you can’t gain any edge by additional investment since…

So a page full of massive banners and popups? How would that benefit most consumers?

If you make it clear to the court that you’re just willing to treat the fine as a tax and pay it indefinitely without having any intention of altering your behavior, I’m sure they’…

How would the search business be monetized?

> Internet Explorer came bundled with the OS and therefore had a leg up on the competition. Isn’t Google doing the same by making their search engine default on Chrome, Android and…

There is very little non-executive level employees can do to engage or not engage in monopolistic practices. All the decisions that lead to that are generally taken way above so su…

So executives, marketing people etc. can say that their products “will crush the competition” and that would be fine? > Moron Not so much because they might making some incorrect c…

> everyone else would now be more profitable with Unreal To be fair only F2P games that makes less than ~$2 per user might be more profitable. For almost everyone else above the 1 …

> at .20c Zero of them would be paying $0.2 per instal. Probably much closer to $0.03-0.05. Nobody could ship games in the Switch using the personal edition and nobody who understa…

Why? IMHO it makes more sense for a public company.

> 27cents Realistically it’s closer to 3-5 cents per install. Where did you get 27? Even personal/plus is cheaper than that in the worst case (ie. 100% of your users are in NA, the…

Because it’s predictable and and you can trust Epic to not start pulling the rug from under you. Even with the new pricing model Unity should still stay way cheaper for anyone who …

> re the Pro and Enterprise tier isn't too horrid. Technically you couldn’t even use Personal or Plus if you made over 200k a year. It doesn’t really make much sense to stay on the…

Isn’t most of that from Fortnite and not the engine business?

Technically if your game is not F2P Unity will still be much if your revenue i a couple if millions (even with their bizarre and convoluted per install pricing). Also I don’t think…

I’m not sure shareholders asked them to over hire since 2019 by more than 2x (conservatively) and start spending billions to acquire random companies without having a clear vision …

Yeah, certainly. This feels like such a weird model. Many developers will end up paying much less than 1% maybe even closer 0.1% while for others it could be much higher than 5%. A…

> Also most companies with "above AA" money aren't using Unity. That not so obvious. Ad infested shovelware does make a lot of money.

> 5% for more than half the cost of development is not? The same can be said about Unity asking you to pay $0.05 per install (which is massively cheaper than Unreal for any non F2P…

> IMO 5% is totally deserved and justified. In fact it's a bargain and you save money by paying Epic 5% compared to anything else out there. How? That’s significantly more expensiv…