Are you going out of your way to make fair compensation seem absurd? How about this? Why should I have pay Best Buy for a new TV if there are ads on NBC?!
Sure. If Target provides something justifying getting paid twice, than of course they should get paid twice. And they do. They get compensated by vendors looking for better product placement and by me the consumer.
Than let’s cap developer payouts. You can only make $100,000 from your software. Once you do that it becomes public domain and it’s no longer an issue.
Well they provided Apple a store, enabling consumers to buy their products. That sounds justified. Therefore they should get an ongoing 30% cut for all transactions made with an iPhone. Same with ISPs. They should get 30% too. They're work is also helping facilitate all those transactions.
Same with Apple.
Why cap developer payout and not the apple cut ? Why are you so adamant on defending Tim's practices ? This is becoming boring.
I like this. We can add something else. Apple can take a cut too but up to an upper limit of how much it cost Apple to distribute the App plus a healthy profit of say 10%, after that 100% goes to the developer until say $100,000 than the rest goes to taxes.
I'd be fine if people were to start getting charged to post on social media, everything would get quieter and a bit more articulate.
Your thoughts on Keychain (technically "iCloud Keychain, since "Keychain" is just the secure database that has been on Macs for more than 21 years) are a bit dated now, since iCloud Keychain (or "iCloud Passwords" as Apple calls them for Windows folk) is now available on Windows and in the Chrome browser.
Set up iCloud Passwords on your Windows computer
Set up iCloud Passwords in iCloud for Windows so you can manage and autofill your passwords on your PC.support.apple.com
So a solution exists for your Desktop for passwords, at least.
As for Apple Pay, that's intentional since Windows computers come from many vendors and it's impossible for Apple to control the overall security of the system. Could you imagine if Apple allowed Apple Pay to work on Windows without the same strict safeguards in place on iDevices and Macs and customers got hacked? You got it ... it would be Apple's fault.
Apple Pay has only been approved for use on devices that Apple can prove keep the transaction exceptionally secure. They can't provide that assurance across a wide arrange of Windows computers, otherwise you'd have your beloved Apple Pay on Windows.
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I’m on board with that. If the conversation is that someone’s revenue should be limited than we need to limit the revenue of everyone involved. We can’t just do it to one party.
False dichotomy.
Yes! I am okay with paying a tiny microtransaction per comment, per like, everything!
Do you mean profit or commission? Currently Apple gets a 15 - 30% commission; we don't know what the profit is.
AKCHUALLY
At this point it is not about the rate, IT has become critical infrastructure and as such will get regulated into obedience.Alright... so what should the rates be?
If 30% is too high for large developers... and 15% is still too high for small developers... what is the proper number?
Should the commission fee just be 12% like Epic charges developers in its store? Would that fix it?
Or if Apple changed their rate to 10% would all these various nations drop their anti-trust investigations and lawsuits? Is it just that simple?
They are still in control of what the end user pays.AKCHUALLY
The developer sets the fee for a given function, the rate is a set % given by
