If apple increases prices in their app store to maintain their egregious profit margins at the expense of consumers, then consumers will be more likely to instead install apps from competing app stores that charge lower prices. That's the beauty of competition and free markets
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They’re all hurting for money. It’s trendy to go after the big, bad companies to get some money out of them. The EU knows all about this. The UK is finally catching on.
And yet this tiny little overpopulated island with 70 million residents with "squat in tech" will do its utmost best to take-on industry bullies like Apple, to stop them from r@ping independent app-developers with piss-poor terms and conditions and the prohibition of alternative app-stores. And the precident we'll set by succeeding along with the EU will probably benefit all of you in the long-run.
You're f***ing welcome. 👍
(EDIT : Oh and we invented ARM architecture, and the World Wide Web.)
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I'm not talking about Apple increasing their prices. That's actually my point.
Most Apple apps are free anyway. No, I'm talking about third party apps becoming more expensive because of this. This will also cause most free apps to become either paid or with increased amounts of ads.
Along with over regulation, over taxation, over surveillance.
Also that would not fly in today’s age. Regardless if Steve Jobs wants it or not. If the shareholders want them to charge more, Apple will.
Once upon a time the UK led the aircraft world with the Viscount, Vanguard, VC-10, etc. Britain was a pioneer in computers and coding (they broke engima). Britain had things like Timex Sinclair.
So what happened? Sh****y governments that meddled in innovation. Example, messing around with VC-10 so it was suitable for the Africa - India markets gave the U.S. time to catch up.
Labour was mostly to blame. Their record is dismal (not that the Tories are much better). Now you have another Labour government and what is happening in London is heartbreaking.
I don’t know the full story behind this, but I would agree that Apple’s charge of commission and in-app rates is totally excessive. I’ve said this before, years ago.
And once upon a time, the British Empire controlled 35.5 million km² – 146 times the UK’s own size…now? It’s reduced to nothing more than a locale 40x smaller than the United States. You also invented Lucas Electrics. That’s not something to be proud of 👏
facts, but to really get the hustle culture going, you need to have more guns than people first.
You also broke Enigma, gave us our judicial system and the Common Law. You had rocking jet aircraft in the Fifties before the U.S. (Then your government came in and f***ed it all up.)
And the best thing you gave the world: pubs!!
I was a little harsh in my previous post, I can’t deny…they did give the world pubs and the breaking of the enigma code! A cup of earl grey is an honorable mention, as well ❤️
It's called the Constitution and was ratified as law 238 years ago. The random mutterings of Steve Jobs carry no weight, except in Great Britain, where Monty Python has accurately portrayed its bureaucrats in many sketches.
Lucas, the Prince of Darkness and the reason so many older Jaguars got rides on flatbed trucks.
The earliest pubs in Britain date back to the 1st to 4th centuries. Archaeological excavations show them to have Roman architecture, Roman tableware, serving counters, and Roman amphorae. So, structurally, materially, and functionally, the first pubs were Roman.
Being based on the same OS. I would doubt it personally.
Something like that would end up being a new device. While they could do many of the same things. It would be designed for a different use case, and most likely run macOS.
Wish we had holographic screens. 🤣
They charge the same fess that every platform charges, it still less than what it cost to sell physical games in a store.