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Apple Says Plan for Nearly 50% Commission on Metaverse Purchases 'Lays Bare Meta's Hypocrisy'
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Well, you see, they’re just asking for just compensation for their investment into their store front.
Apple, on the other hand, is extorting vendors.
I can appreciate your support or side loading as that is your choice, me I have no interest in it or alt app stores. Android offers those and just see no need, personally, why apple needs to be forced to do the same. None of my friends are clamoring for side loading and or an alternate App Store. Only my perspective.
I jailbroke my first iPhone way back in 2009 or 2010 to add functionality that existed in the kernel but was locked down by Apple. And that was to enable tethering and share my 3G connection via USB or WIFI. This functionality is stock today, but back then Apple locked it down. Enabling tethering on the phone allowed me to remain connected with family members when they were going thru a hurricane when my internet provider went down. We take it for granted today but back then an app from an alternative App Store enabled me to stay in contact with family.
Another thing you could do with jailbreaking was to customize the look of the icons and springboard and even replace the control center with something far more useful. There are so many ways to customize the phone, but Apple's restrictions, in my view, is stifling innovation in some ways. Most people might not ever want to customize their phone or load other apps and that is totally okay. But there are some of us, perhaps a very small minority, but we exist who are of the opinion that we paid our good hard earned money for the phone, let us use it how we want to use it, within the confines of the law of course.
We can agree to disagree on this point and that's okay. Best wishes!
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You bet they want their free stuff. I remember going out and paying for software and then iOS came along. Probably the most expensive purchase I have made was a long time ago, way before Apple Maps was an app called Navigon. It was over $30 for sure. Now everything is basically free apps but then you all of these in app purchases that come up to well over $30 in some cases and I just hate monthly subscription fees
No, you're wrong. It's:
"You're too greedy!"
"No, you're a hypocrite."
Businesses are greedy. They exist to take people's money. The hypocrisy comes into play when one business calls another greedy and then proceeds to outdo them.
Since I'm sure you need this spelled out for you: Greed is not the issue at all here. Hypocrisy is. Got it?
Cough cough…
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Of course, I am also technically enthusiastic.
But the disconnect from the real world makes it rather difficult to practice and learn success, commonality, and enjoyment in the real world on a daily basis. This is the corrosive impact of such technology on humanity.
Apple will always use the real environment as a base layer in its glasses, so that's a useful distinction for me.
Nope, I’ve got a problem with the greed enabled through disallowing competition in app distribution.
Some would say macrumours is a social media platform for mac-enthusiasts…
If that were happening it would be a different issue. It has nothing to do with commissions.
It is happening. And Apple can charge whatever percent they want because there's no other route to distributing and installing software for iPhone users.
So you say, but it's still off-topic.
Great point I wasn’t even hipped to Jim Henson, I just stared following Tesla last year.
Heh... I used Palm OS A LOT in the 00s. My first 2 purchases on there was a Galaxia clone and a Frogger clone. Each of those games costed $10 each. I recall one person said some mini-game for Palm OS cost $10, but a full adventure video game for Game Boy Advance cost $20. The latter included that mini game within the game and was a much better value.
Apps in those times (before we even used the term "apps") could also get to $30 to $50 apiece (e.g. Documents To Go)*. I heard ESD (electronic software distribution sites) would charge 65% (yes, they get the majority) to host software. If you don't use them, discovery can be very difficult (not to mention they established some trust), and per their agreement, if they found you selling your software at a cheaper price, you'd be breaking their ToS. There was a movement against those ESDs, but Palm OS and Windows Mobile (not to be confused with Windows Phone which came in a decade or so later) both croaked, so it's moot... until it happens again, like now.
* One app cost $20, which was a a fireplace. People wondered why they couldn't just play a video of a fire in a fireplace, and just loop that for free