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Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account

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Post by dwattttt »

tshaddox wrote: post #292
biscuitech wrote: post #284

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Would you rather have no choice? I get the sentiment, but it's nice to finally have lawmakers and regulators standing for what's right - for once.

Aren’t regulators by definition establishing regulations which make all choices more similar to each other?

More similar in that they force them to obey the regulations, yes. But regulations cover things like interoperability & anti-competitive behaviour, and here retaliatory actions. I'd very much like _all_ choices to be forced to behave the same w.r.t. not being able to retaliate against protected action, or all be forced to follow the same laws.

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Post by Keyframe »

maipen wrote: post #64
retskrad wrote: post #5

Tim Cook managed to be cool calm and diplomatic when dealing with Trump and his trade war with China. Why is Tim Cook suddenly acting irrational and child-like when dealing with EU? This behaviour we're seeing from Apple recently is happening in front on investors and everyone else's eyes because Tim Cook is personally green-lighting this behaviour. What's going on inside Apple? Is it because none of their hardware i…

Aside from their spectacular laptops with arm, they seem like they are being left behind. Vision Pro is probably a gimmick along with the whole VR world right now, which will change soon too but overall I don't see anything exciting about apple. Their pricing is infuriating and so are their decisions (laptop 8gb ram in 2024???) To me it looks like they got stuck in the "this is what worked for us, so let's only do th…

Seems to me they ran course of strategic layout set by Jobs and are cruising on play it safe and more of it now. Hence wide variety of the sameness in their product offerings. Cook is a good operative, but not a strategic visionary. As for what's the hot topic about, Apple was always heavy handed, only now is the era they got a chance to have that hand be real heavy.

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Post by KineticLensman »

VladTheImpalor wrote: post #155
geodel wrote: post #131

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I think they meant once. Besides digital lollipops what else is going so great in EU? jobs? economic growth? housing? immigration?

Yes? Housing is infinitely better than the US, job security can be better, work life balance is better, cities are nicer to look at, architecture is better, people are more active, fitter, have lives beyond work. The bread is better, so is the cheese. There is real food available. Public transport is plentiful. Society feels a bit less polarised. The EU is infinitely better than living in the states. At least for thi…

But apart from the housing, fitness, public transport, cities, work life balance, architecture, job security and cheese, what has the EU done for us?

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Post by skydhash »

Muromec wrote: post #198
qeternity wrote: post #114

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> They did this to themselves What...by being successful?

Yes. It's the reality of capitalistic end game. You start with a great product, innovate for 30 years and then when you think you got it and can endlessly extract the rent from the market, while adding another megapixel and megaherz and buying out or bulling competitors, then the government knocks on your door and gives you the award of the biggest asshat in the town and asks to retire. Congrats, you won, now let som…

> And the taxes is what government does, not you.

Because the role of the government (in theory) is to use these taxes for public utility services and projects. Companies only care about their owners and shareholders, a very small subset of the population. If you're not contributing to society, but just profiteering, you should retire. Especially if your position lead you to have a say to what succeed or not in the economy.

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Post by dang »

throwaway118899 wrote: post #127
andy_ppp wrote: post #92

I’m so tired of this Apple tax, I think nobody would be this annoyed if Apple were saying 10% or something around that. 30% is more than most companies pay in tax on profits and this is a tax on revenue. I don’t think abusing your market position like some kind of protection racket should be allowed and if you don’t like it we’ll delete your App is quite frankly just as bad as the mafia smashing in shop windows. I do…

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Post by adastra22 »

subw00f wrote: post #110
adastra22 wrote: post #102

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I don't think monopoly is the right word here.

Yeah, duopoly is a better word.

Maybe, in the context of smartphones as a whole. In the context of the App Store (which TFA is about), Apple is a gatekeeper and this is an instance of vendor-lockin. Technically not the same as a monopoly (because, as you mention, you can always use Android).

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Post by beeboobaa »

matwood wrote: post #259
its_ethan wrote: post #213

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30% isn't some outlier share though? It also has been that way since the beginning, so it's not like they achieved their market position and then jacked up the prices; it's been this way the whole time - and, in fact, they've added programs where smaller businesses only pay a 15% commission..

Not an outlier and is pretty standard. When it was originally announced it was one of the best deals out there for developers writing software for phones. The WWDC audience cheered at getting 70%.

The WWDC audience cheers at everything.
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