Big Tech is taking our freedom – How Apple is making developers pay ransom money
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#2"Twitter banned me because of what I said on it!"
"They're a private company, they can do what they want!"
"Facebook is deleting posts that don't agree with their political opinion!" "They're a private company, they can do what they want!"
"Google dropped my website from AdSense because they disagree with the opinions on it!" "They're a private company, they can do what they want!"
"Apple is making me use their payments platform for my app on their App Store!" "HEY NOW THEY CANT DO THAT!"
Never change, Silicon Valley. Never change.
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#3Classic sensationalized title about apple. Yes this is a problem, but ransom isn’t the right analogy here. Apple’s payment solution is both an outdated and very apple way of doing things.
Re: Big Tech is taking our freedom – How Apple is making developers pay ransom money
#4Classic sensationalized title about apple. Yes this is a problem, but ransom isn’t the right analogy here. Apple’s payment solution is both an outdated and very apple way of doing things.
antitrust bundling is probably a better description.
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#5I bet we're all think, I wish I wouldn't have bought all those 99 cents ipod songs.
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#630% seems to be the standard commission rate in the gig economy for "I did something for you".
Grubhub: I brought you an order, give me 30%
Apple: I brought you a customer, give me 30%
Uber: I brought you a passenger, give me 30%
Competition can lower the industry rates for food & personal travel, though I suspect there is price fixing at play right now. But it cannot for Apple platforms. The antitrust proceedings _must_ happen for us to see progress here. You don't persuade the largest company in the world to change their ways. You legislate them to. Too bad our lawmakers have no teeth.
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#7I'm not sure if I sympathize well with this but I am open to hearing more. If I am a US citizen, then I have to pay ~30% taxes on my worldwide income. In exchange, I have a very convenient passport, I have access to the US stock market, etc...
Is it not the same for Apple? You pay 30% tax and you have to implement their IAP. That's the cost of getting access to all the iPhone market share amongst other things.
Re: Big Tech is taking our freedom – How Apple is making developers pay ransom money
#8I'm not sure if I sympathize well with this but I am open to hearing more. If I am a US citizen, then I have to pay ~30% taxes on my worldwide income. In exchange, I have a very convenient passport, I have access to the US stock market, etc... Is it not the same for Apple? You pay 30% tax and you have to implement their IAP. That's the cost of getting access to all the iPhone market share amongst other things.
It is the same for Apple but you're forgetting that this is bad for everyone who isn't a US citizen. And in the same vein, these tech mini nation-states create walled-gardens around themselves in the same vein nation-states erect borders. And borders are a reason for huge welfare losses.
One reason you have a nation-state in the first place is so you avoid local zero-sum games and you can force companies to compete on an open market, which has huge positive upside for everyone who isn't Apple.
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#930% seems to be the standard commission rate in the gig economy for "I did something for you". Grubhub: I brought you an order, give me 30% Apple: I brought you a customer, give me 30% Uber: I brought you a passenger, give me 30% Competition can lower the industry rates for food & personal travel, though I suspect there is price fixing at play right now. But it cannot for Apple platforms. The antitrust proceedings _m…
> Competition can lower the industry rates for food & personal travel, though I suspect there is price fixing at play right now.
Considering (food & human) delivery is already a notoriously unprofitable industry, I think the more likely answer is that competition already occurred and these are somewhat fair prices we are left with.
Apple on the other hand, can host an app download on the app store without paying a human to use a depreciating asset (that burns fossil fuels) to travel several miles in meatspace.
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#10I switched from android to iphone because of privacy reasons
I don’t agree that I’m a customer of the service I’m using if i use it on Apple product
I trust Apple to do a review where it checks if service is harming my privacy and I’m paying Apple for that
I think apple is fair here.