Yes, I agree with you. But this could could have serious ramifications across al business across the entire country. It could kill some companies and reduce others. The 30% is not simply a random fee, there is the cost of running the operation. They might have to switch to an AWS model....charge developers for amount of storage on servers and per MB of data up and down
A cynic would say that pols have all kinds of bills held, in reserve, to be selectively released in time of need. You know, son busted for crack or “private jet and island” is discovered and lots of “intense lobbying” is needed to make it go away. Pick a particulary juicy bill, publicize it, and send it to committee - then contact the bill’s target and let them know that only INTENSE lobbying will stop whatever said bill purports to accomplish. Problem solved.
Bad explanation of what the bill was attempting to do.
It's shady lobbying undone by more lobbying. TenCent hired lobbyists to get a bill with the intent to damage Apple and Google. Absolutely fine for Apple to strike back in the same way.
And all other companies that have a similar business model. Apple might have to rework the structure to a AWS charge model. If they are not making the cost of running the infrastructure, they would just change the model or kill it off. I can't even begin to imagine what it costs to run however many exabytes of storage (hardware, electric, HVAC, engineering, etc) Servers are a 5 year lifespan.
40%, plus tons and tons and tons of other companies. TenCent is a $750 billion company with its fingers in every pot.
To add to your $0.02, Who says Apple watches your privacy? The fact they use your data to see how you use devices and sell you more products and content doesn’t give me any privacy. Furthermore, it is clear here that Apple paid enough politicians to remove this bill after it was going pretty well. Look how they modify iOS to help Russia...
That has become the normality of global companies, All major corporations of every country does that. For better or worse.
I think he got your joke just fine. His point was that in some other countries, politicians are WAY more corrupted by money than in the US.
It was lobbying that introduced the bill and lobbying that got the bill killed.
Really? One of the few things for which Congress is exclusively responsible is interstate commerce. Given the ruling in Wickard vs. Fillburn, that held even a farmer’s use of his own crops, grown on his own land, to feed his own animals was a matter of interstate commerce, it is hard to argue that this bill is not.
The 30% is nothing to do with covering the cost of running the App Store any more than the 30% cut to Nintendo is for covering the cost of a plastic cartridge and printed sleeve. Those items are negligible expenses. The 30% is what you pay to access millions of Apple/Nintendo customers. Building those kinds of customer bases takes vast effort and years, if not decades of building trust, so the companies that put in that effort have every right to make a profit off of other business that want access.
You mean a bill literally written by a lobbyist failed when other lobbyists pointed out its actual consequences
There is nothing wrong with lobbying (even the actions of the Coalition for App Fairness are fine). Lobbying is just the name we give for individuals or groups of individuals with shared interests, trying to influence legislation. It includes letter/eMail/phone campaigns by concerned people. Paid lobbyists represent companies (groups of share holders and employees), unions (groups of employees), trade organizations (groups of companies that are themselves groups of people), professional societies, like the ACM, AMA, IEEE, (groups of individuals) and interest organizations like Focus on the Family and the Sierra Club (groups of individual).
Imagine that you lived in a town where there was only one grocery store, from one company. Whenever people say there should be more grocery stores, you tell them to move to a different town where there are multiple stores. You say people should have the choice to live in a town where there's one store, because it reduces the risk of people buying low quality or even poisoned food.
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