Well, first off? How about not? I recently ditched my 2019 Tesla Model 3 because the recent price drops and tax credits have devalued it so badly from what I paid, I couldn't get out from being underwater on the loan! I'd send in an extra $5000 on the principle to put a dent in it, and Elon would knock $10,000 off the price of the new Model 3's! And now he's talking about a body style revision by the end of the year for them, too. Imagine what THAT would do to my resale value of the car. I decided to cut my losses and trade it in towards an almost new Chevy Bolt Premier edition a local dealer had on their lot. It's no Tesla but it saves me $300/month in car payments on a car that won't devalue the way the Model 3 did. (I didn't even buy it for as much money as my Tesla devalued already!)
But second? I don't care about ANY of this "who pays content creators what" debate, really. Apple built their App Store and the devices that use it. It's their ecosystem or "playground", ultimately, and they can price things as they see fit in it. Musk also has the right to complain about their pricing if his product is distributed through that channel. But ultimately? Apple will do whatever they want with this stuff, and if they're too unreasonable? It just moves more people over to the Android platform. (My daughter is a good example. Always had an iPhone but now wants an Android simply because of restrictions iOS places on Discord with some of its forums and what can be used on them with iOS devices. Apple's philosophy they'll ban anything not fully "family friendly" in the App Store is definitely costing them users. And ironically? They've never been able to make a trouble and bug-free product for the purpose of controlling what kids or teens can see/do on Apple devices. ScreenTime has issues now but so it their previous parental control controls for MacOS.) If they could at least get THAT right, they wouldn't need to enforce blanket bans on the other stuff.
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