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who is the ruler of making laws for general compute platform?
The cost of this is included into the price of the phone and the price of the developers tools. How do you think computer manufacturers get profits without having their app stores? The fact that Apple has such high profits indicates just that - they overcharge (double dip if you wish). Also, everybody should be paid only for what they do. If Apple wants to charge for tool development and app hosting -that's fine. But why should they be paid based on the content distribution? Content is paid for and hosted/distributed by Spotify. Apple contributes exactly nothing to it, yet they get paid for it anyways. They are the parasites.
Nothing. You asked a question and I answered it.
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why should Google be able to advertise for free on their own search engine for free?
why should Meta be able to advertise their Quest VR devices for free on their Facebook site for free?
why should NBC be able to advertise their own new shows on their own network for free?
why should Samsung be able to advertise their own watches on their TVs for free?
nope. iPhone SE is $429 with 5 years of updates. it does not pay for tens/hundreds of apple services/products provided to developers for free (Apple Maps/CloudKit/push notifications/etc...)
$99/year barely pays for a few hours of App reviewers time. Spotify submitted 40+ updates, exceeding the $99/year budget easily. Google Maps alone charges thousands/month for high volume users. Facebook gets to use Apple Maps for free for their billions of users.
At their reported daily quotas of 50-100 apps to review, I sure hope it doesn’t take 30 minutes.
Why should there be a difference in commissions or allowed payment methods between the two?
Why can developers promote offers for physical goods sold outside - but not digital ones?
Basic questions.
I mean… digital downloads are cheaper to deliver than physical goods - and have marginal costs approaching zero.
Terrible analogies. No other search engines, social media sites, TV networks or watch makers are FORCED to ONLY advertise and distribute their goods on Google, Meta, NBC, or Samung (respectively). Spotify is a competitor to Apple. You left that out of your analogies.
that increases barrier of cost for new developers = lowering developer count long term.
no government has defined laws for "general compute platform" in that they have to be "open" so far.
only EU has defined "gatekeepers" which is not the same as "general compute platform". now what?
Because Google is the one providing service? How much did you pay for Google Search? As much as you paid for iPhone? You own the iPhone, not Apple. Why Apple is getting paid for everything that's happening on your device? What's next? You buy a TV in Wal-Mart and then you have to pay them a fee for every streaming service you watch on it?
$200/year ?
that's lot of money for Spotify, how are they even making money after paying $200/year to Apple.
stupid logic.
your logic was that Spotify is so well known before downloading the app. If they were so well known, customers don't switch off from their desktop/web just to sign up on the least comfortable device for inputting data.
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
I‘ve hardly ever seen Apple fighting another company publicly with words as fiercely in this instance.
A stark contrast to their usual very muted public communication - if not (very often) refusal to comment.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
I‘ve hardly ever seen Apple fighting another company publicly with words as fiercely in this instance.
A stark contrast to their usual very muted public communication - if not (very often) refusal to comment.
They did not create the laws for it yet. It's time they did. They are working on it. In fact, some regulations do exist (they do not have to be laws). For example, government requires that all smart phones properly handled 911 calls.
No it's called smart tax planing. This was perfectly legal and devised by Tax Attorneys. If one is a big corporation, it behooves you to pay top dollar to international Tax Attorneys and Accounting firms. It's not just Apple that did this.
What Apple and other corporations did is perfectly legal to the point that new regulations are being proposed to mitigate this. In the world of global taxation, think of it as a game of cat and mouse. One thing closes, another thing opens. Before Ireland, we had the Swiss, Bahamas etc. Its all a game.
weird how you said bye, and then proceeded to respond with "Terrible analogies..." to another statement of mine?
weird move. don't want to play this game. anyways I'm moving on.
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so far they haven't defined laws for "general compute platform" specifically. apple is good.
Apple owes trillions of dollars in taxes and debt due to their extreme greed.
Meanwhile, Spotify just wants to make a good affordable music product without getting robbed by Apple.
Apple gets a free pass.
While Spotify gets shamed?
Meanwhile, Spotify just wants to make a good affordable music product without getting robbed by Apple.
Apple gets a free pass.
While Spotify gets shamed?
Apple is providing a service too?
Google makes their money in other ways instead of large upfront costs
Similarly, Apple makes their money in other ways instead of large developer upfront costs.[/QUOTE]
"general compute platform" is not the same as a company that "exerts too much power"
the argument OP was making was that Switch is not a "general compute platform".