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With no context, that sounds like a trading term to me, like "a put".
You can "hit the ask" during a trade
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I really don’t know how long I’m willing to buy this argument that Apple is a “luxury” brand or that Apple or its customers are disproportionately concerned about coolness or fashion. All the competing flagship smartphones have similar products at similar prices, including all the branded accessories, as well as extremely similar marketing and advertising. And at least in the United States, Apple has nearly a 50% mar…
> Apple has nearly a 50% market share What market are you talking about? I haven't heard the 50% market share number in the US. - iOS is 59.71% of smartphones in the US - macOS is 27.16% of Desktop PCs in the US https://www.mobileapps.com/blog/android-vs-ios-market-share#... https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...
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I never had to go to the Mac App Store to download Finder though.
If you did have to download Finder from the Mac App Store, would that turn Finder into a competitor of Dropbox?
Sometime in early 2019, I bought an iPad (pre ipad OS). I went to a website and downloaded a journal PDF. I had no idea where the file was physically located. Safari didn't provide an indication, and there didn't appear to be a File Manager of any kind built in. So I had to search online for an app, just to locate a a file I had downloaded through the browser.
I returned the iPad and went back to Android, which has had file explorers built in since forever (both stock Android or OEM skin). "It just works".
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A market place and a search engine with ads are a little different. Apple is the market and also the vendor of the competing product in this case. They used their control of the market to benefit themselves. This type of vertical integration that is used to squash and out compete smaller competitors definitely smells like what anti trust laws were originally put in place to fight. Big tech lawyers should be terrified…
> A market place and a search engine with ads are a little different. There is a difference here. Google has a very definite profit motive in selling ads on searches for a given companies product name that ranks higher in their monopoly search engine. I can't see how ranking Files higher than Dropbox has any such profit motive. It's a free system utility that isn't even ad supported.
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> The iOS state has 65% of users 65% may be the shares in devices sold in Q4 2020, in the US. From what I’ve gathered, actual devices market share, in the US, is closer to (and less than) 50%. Doesn’t invalidate your points though.
> From what I’ve gathered, actual devices market share, in the US, is closer to (and less than) 50%. iOS has 60% of the market in the US[1]. [1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/ios-more-popular-in-japan-and-us-...
Here, 50% [1] There, 59% [2]
Intriguing that there isn’t any reliable statistics on the topic
[1] https://www.emarketer.com/content/iphones-gaining-us-market-...
[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
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> Mac software and app industry has died. Even after notarising apps they show malicious popup to users. I maintain a handful of open source apps for macOS, and have for years. If I don't pay the $100 Apple tax, macOS will treat those apps as if they're radioactive, and it will trick users into believing the apps are either broken or malicious. In order to run them, users must know how to change arcane settings and d…
> If I don't pay the $100 Apple tax Please. If you can’t make enough in an entire damn year to cover that $100, you need to look at what you’re doing. Hell I’ve seen obscure open source projects get more than $100 in donations every single month. If people see any value in your work, then that $100 is not a barrier at all.
I made these apps before macOS enforced the $100 Apple tax on all apps. I would not have created them today if it meant jumping through the hoops that Apple imposes in 2021.
It actually costs me money to maintain these apps, because the time I take to maintain them could be time I bill to a client.
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Honestly, if I were to make a platform and someone else were to come by and somehow force my hand regarding what should be allowed on it and how they should be ranked in it, I’d just shut it all down, even the company if need be, give their money back to whatever investors there may be, and walk away. Let them have fun building it themselves if they want it to run any other way. But that’s just me, and it probably sp…
As a member of a society there are ground rules you are obliged to abide by in order to participate. The upshot is Apple makes 10s of billions per year while abiding by those standards. It's a pretty fantastic deal if you can get it and I don't think if regulations on manipulation of the app market is tightened up it would be an undue burden. You seem to be imagining that a trillion dollar business is just a really b…
You are extrapolating. Of course I’m aware shareholders would just fire me.
However, adding tens of caveats to what was merely a statement of my visceral and spontaneous reaction to being put in such a situation was, and is, kind of moot.
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Honestly, if I were to make a platform and someone else were to come by and somehow force my hand regarding what should be allowed on it and how they should be ranked in it, I’d just shut it all down, even the company if need be, give their money back to whatever investors there may be, and walk away. Let them have fun building it themselves if they want it to run any other way. But that’s just me, and it probably sp…
Honestly, if I were to make an petroleum refining company and someone else were to come by and somehow force my hand regarding what should be allowed to be dumped into the river or not I'd just shut it down, even the company if need be, give their money back to whatever investors there may be, and walk away. Let them have fun building it themselves if they want to run any other way. /s