Elon Musk Says Apple's 30% App Store Fee is 'Literally 10 Times Higher Than It Should Be'

[wyarp]

Oh the irony.... ?‍♂️

 

[neoelectronaut]

Pay your ****ing taxes, Elon.

 

[Danfango]

Musk just doesn't show he understands that kind of business.

Musk doesn't understand ANY business. The only thing he is actually good at is finding people who are monumentally better at things than he is and lining them up below himself and taking all the credit for it with his massive ego.

The real people are his staff and they never leak through the personality, which means he runs personality cults, and those ALWAYS fail.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I don't understand -- are people who make such claims aware that physical stores take about 30% to 50% of what they sell?

We've hashed this topic and the major differences in the comparison you are making, several times now, in threads with 40-50 pages.

It might be good to peruse some of those, as the answers to your question are addressed many times over.

 

[SigEp265]

Musk doesn't understand ANY business. The only thing he is actually good at is finding people who are monumentally better at things than he is and lining them up below himself and taking all the credit for it with his massive ego.

The real people are his staff and they never leak through the personality, which means he runs personality cults, and those ALWAYS fail.

LOL sounds like Jobs

 

[paulypants]

Elon Musk is literally 10 times higher than he should be.

 

[MuGeN PoWeR]

says a guy who charges $2xx/month for autopilot feature! he is nothing but a joke!

 

[NeoSe7en]

Says the guy charging $12,000 to enable a piece of software.

 

[I7guy]

He is absolutely right.

The hardware, software, APIs, etc. are handsomely paid for when you buy the phone. No software/APIs? No Safari, Mail, Messages, Music, or any of the built-in apps. Unlike, say, a console which is a well-known loss leader, it makes perfect sense to use it only with the built-in apps. Add quite a few free apps (from which Apple makes $0) and the phone is perfectly usable for the average user. No, not you: if you're reading MacRumors you're far from the average user. I have some paid apps, but the average user like my mother or my wife have no paid apps.

The joke of a review process, and the senseless limitations placed on apps, are a mob-style protection racket that's forced down your throat whether you like it or not. Then you have to pay for the infrastructure of an app store that, again, you may not have called for -- we could just keep doing what we've always done in our Macs and PCs, which is find and load our own apps. The app store should be just a marketing tool for lazy people who don't mind paying for the privilege of discovering new apps, while developers will accept whatever cut Apple imposes on them and chalk it down as the cost of marketing.

Nah, he’s not right. He overcharges for a battery and motor. His software is closed and maintenance manuals are not open to the public. Do as I say but not as I do.

 

[ethanwa79]

I’m not a Musk fan, but I agree with him.

 

[Bistroengine]

Said also Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, who wants to take 50% of digital asset sales in the 'Metaverse.' They're all hypocrites.

 

[Danfango]

LOL sounds like Jobs

Oh no Jobs was pre-social media. He was a regular corporate tyrant. Musk is a social media hype monkey corporate tyrant. A whole new breed of asshattery like never seen before.

It's really the third generation post-Musk universe I don't want to be in. It's only going to be worse than the current one.

 

[now i see it]

He only stated what countless others have said already. So what.

 

[Danfango]

Says the guy charging $12,000 to enable a piece of software.

Which attempts to end your existence every few minutes.

 

[ElectricPotato]

Either Elon is cluelessly spouting off, or he has a financial incentive to attack Apple. It's hard to tell with this guy.

 

[surfzen21]

Typical hypocritical Musk.

 

[Rafterman]

Typical hypocritical Musk.

Musk: the freespeech advocate who urged Chinese cesnors to block criticism of his company.

 

[MrTechAdvice]

Says the guy charging $12,000 to enable a piece of software.

lolololololololololololol

 

[4jasontv]

Elon is a troll. He will get distracted by the next idea that gives him LOLz.

He is wrong about the fees, as are most comments that are driven by humor.

 

[silentdevotion]

I've always said it should be closer to 15%, that won't change because they must entice their shareholders.

 

[Konigi]

We've hashed this topic and the major differences in the comparison you are making, several times now, in threads with 40-50 pages.

It might be good to peruse some of those, as the answers to your question are addressed many times over.

I'm interested in reading about it then. How can I find it?

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'm interested in reading about it then. How can I find it?

MacRumors.com News Discussion

forums.macrumors.com

Just about any thread in there in the last 6-8 months where regulations/regulators/EU/(insert other country)/App Store rules/etc is discussed.

Search can narrow it down for you if looking for specific post verbiage/keywords of course also.

 

[alexandr]

Is he going to buy Apple now?..

 

[B4U]

How many times did Tesla raise their prices for the vehicle in the US within the past 2 years while lowering for China?

 

[alchemistmuffin]

Musk has criticized the Apple's App Store several times in the past. Back in July, for example, Musk called out Apple for creating a walled garden and said Tesla would never do such a thing. "I think we do want to emphasize that our goal is to support the advent of sustainable energy," Musk said at the time, responding to a question about letting competitors use the Tesla charger network. "It is not to create a walled garden and use that to bludgeon our competitors which is used by some companies."

Again, Musk is attacking Apple because he’s afraid if Apple Car comes out eventually, his source of income will disappear overnight. He knows Apple would’ve perfected the car better than Tesla basically and everyone would buy that instead of Tesla.