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I saw the new Mac Mini on sale at Costco for $600 yesterday, I don’t see how Apple hardware can be called “expensive” anymore.
Don't you still need to buy a monitor and all peripherals?
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Yes, I'm tied to Apple and unable to leave. Even if for the simple reason that I find other OSes and devices that run them shit in comparison.
Has it occured to you that maybe those other OSes and devices are shit precisely because they give unfettered access to developers/scammers/adtech on their platform?
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> they own the hardware They don't — the users bought it, it's theirs now. It should be illegal to restrict hardware like this.
So when you buy a vehicle, you should be allowed to run any custom OSS on the hardware?
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Apple had 72.3 billion revenue from App Store in 2020. I can assure you that I can provide you with online store that I can find your app on, and run security checks against your app to check for malicious apps, etc. for 2.1 billion $ per year (3%).
Ah yes, and I’ll have that feature done in 2 weeks, max! How hard could it be?
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Unfortunately, Apple has to maintain this rule because otherwise developers will implement workarounds to avoid charging in the App Store altogether. Remember when eBay charged a commission on the sale price but not shipping? Suddenly $50 items became $1 with $49 shipping -- so eBay had to charge the commission on the shipping too even though it didn't seem "fair". Same here -- every app would turn free, and charge t…
> Unfortunately, Apple has to maintain this rule because otherwise developers will implement workarounds to avoid charging in the App Store altogether If the decision goes against Apple, I'd be surprised if they didn't just 'charge rent' to be on the App Store, just like a retail mall charges stores. Apple would have to take on the additional work of negotiating with each App, which would likely be "take it or leave…
Of course, as we all know, rent in a retail mall often includes a percentage cut of monthly revenue, so we would be right back where we started.
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Depends on how you look at it. I used to work in a store that sold software in the 90s. The publisher would sell us the game wholesale and we'd charge retail. So they would sell it to us for $22.50 and set the retail price at $29. So in that sense it was a 22% cut, because we only kept 22% of the sale price. But in most cases the publisher didn't make the game. They were a middleman who took a game from a studio and…
Except physical distribution is expensive by its nature. It involves producing and moving around physical objects — that's material and labor per copy . App store, on the other hand, is a digital distributor. Making a digital copy is so cheap it could as well be free. And even then, not all app developers publish on the app store because they want or need its distribution services. There are many developers who would…
Every part of application distribution has become cheaper, so you lock down every platform and charge the same percentage.
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Not to mention that you have to purchase expensive apple hardware to develop for iOS.
I saw the new Mac Mini on sale at Costco for $600 yesterday, I don’t see how Apple hardware can be called “expensive” anymore.
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Charging people to make use of their IP is fair IMO. Its similar to paying taxes, even if you don't use the services the taxes are for. The user benefits from Apple maintaining their OS, so has to pay. A citizen paying taxes benefits from all the services the country offers, so he pays taxes.
The problem with this view is it assumes developers need the iPhone more than the iPhone needs developers, which is absolutely not the case. It’s symbiotic certainly—for better or worse far more money is spent on iOS than Android—but without apps the iPhone would be basically useless. In my opinion, Apple needs to acknowledge that, rather than acting like developers owe them the shirt off their backs.
It was good enough for the first year before the App Store existed, and it sold well enough to prove it.
Even now, it's plenty capable right out of the box without installing anything.
A device in 2007 that had first-party apps for email, web browsing, YouTube, weather, calendar, clock, address book, phone, calculator and music player, that also synced with your main personal computer was perfectly fine for many people.
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> - AWS charge you on compute time, Apple don't charge you for ongoing use of their services beyond one initial charge for app submission Yes they do, the fee is yearly, and they make billions in revenue from this. Google charge one-time.
Billions in revenue on $99/year? Is 1% of the planet a paid up iOS developer?
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/04/app-store-hits-20m-registe...
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I know a couple people who dislike Reddit's degraded web experience to drive users to their app. I haven't installed the app myself. Maybe it's a minority opinion. But supposedly Reddit has 1.6 billion unique visitors per month, and about 120 million app installs.
Judging by their non-degraded desktop site experience, thank god we have the app. Honestly, Reddit is one of those sites that make me think the world has collectively forgotten how to make a sane site. It takes seconds to load, and almost everything you go means looking at animated placeholders for a time, until something happens. I have a workstation that deals with 3D rendering and huge Photoshop files, or compilin…