I’m not sure what alternate universe you’re in, sounds nice though. In mine Facebook still holds 75% of the worlds social mediA market share.
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I’m not sure what alternate universe you’re in, sounds nice though. In mine Facebook still holds 75% of the worlds social mediA market share.
So, your family is not a typical family. Half of the world is on Facebook. 95% of developed world is on Facebook.
And yet nobody seems to be mentioning Google, Sony, and Microsoft - all of whom charge the same 30% for access to their platforms. 30% isn't too high when you're dealing with billion- or even multi-million dollar companies. Small developers deserve a break, yes. A graduated system of fees based upon total sales with short-term waivers granted to new, smaller developers would be fair.
But 30% too high? Please.
Not when it’s used to score political points. But then again it’s Facebook...the sometimes arbiters of truth company. 🙄
Social media marketshare. I guess that can be a thing for a dead end business. Perhaps MySpace have 80% of the platform homepage market.
It's in the image. "Facebook doesn't take a fee from this purchase." (No matter what people say that will increase after a year).
Point was the app isn’t needed. And for the half the world that isn’t on Facebook, that’s plenty of customers for apple.
If by young people you mean my family, the top three reasons we have an iPhone have nothing to do with Facebook. More typical than you believe.
I agree, let’s take FaceBook, Instagram, and WhatsApp off the App Store and see how the global smartphone market share looks in 18 months.
Absolutely. We use the marketplace all the time. It’s an invaluable addition to Etsy.
Stop making it all about you, you aren't all that important in the grand scheme of things.
Banning all Facebook apps from iOS would plummet iOS hardware sales and marketshare. Fact is, A LOT of people use their services and rely on them for different methods of communication.
Siilyness.
Apple is pretty straightforward about where the money goes - its pocket. So there is really zero mystery about where the money goes here. And to call out Apple for being a bully just sjows you're not paying attention to the facts and are just onboard with the mob in Apple-bashing. So you "hate" FB but feel reluctant to criticize them. Okay.
Really? The average user who doesn't follow these things knows that when they purchase an online class through facebook for a local business that is struggling, that the local business is going to lose 30% to a lazy tech giant who isn't doing diddly squat to earn it?
Yeah, I'm inclined to believe Facebook 0%. This is clearly another stunt to gang up on Apple. Facebook removes their fee to 0 and calls out Apple at the same time. Petty bs. And timely with them whining about no longer being able to track users across apps.
You missed the point because it is about me and about the others who may want to use facebook but not the app. There are a bunch of us who either don't use facebook and associated apps (like me) or won't install the app. However, there is a reason the facebook app exists on the ios app store.
I just deleted the Facebook app. I haven’t used it for about a year. This stunt reminded me to remove it entirely.
I'm sure Facebook knew this would be noticed and blocked, but it feeds the media storm. Crazy stuff at the moment. A lot of big names ganging up. It'll be interesting to see how it ends. Fight the fight, Apple
At some point names like Nintendo, Xbox, Sony, etc will join Apple seeing every one of them changes 30% to use their platform.
I can’t think of a single other shop or market place where the cost of something is split to show you who gets what regarding the supply chain. It’s kind of a ridiculous concept to consider under each price tag on a supermarket shelf these things should be listed? Why do you care? Go on, admit it- you just want to see Apple burn for the hell of it
But ‘knowing it’ is allowed on the AppStore too. Far easier to find out about than your random example which I suggest you try and see how easy that is in comparison.
Exactly.
Sure. I have a friend of a friend who said just the opposite. I wonder which one of us can prove it first.
So Apple lets this one developer take everything, no fees, because this is all going to charity. Soon another developer with an eye towards charity publishes their app. Then another. And then another. Who's to say that all of their profits will actually go to charity? "Well, we are just covering development costs." All it takes is one developer to take advantage of the system, and the wall comes tumbling down.