Who knew Zuck was such a large Second Life fan
Exactly. As long as there are humans with dollar signs in their eyes (and humans with dollars to spend), there will be always be someone there to sell the shuffleboard stick with the cosmetic that shows a cloud of dollar bills around it for $39.Imagine being the only developer selling a virtual cruise experience that becomes a huge hit and nobody else came up with that idea because of the 50% tax.
Just think, a company that gives away its products for free thinks it can charge 47.5%. Imagine how much Apple, whose only aim is to gouge customers, would be charging in a similar situation? My mind boggles.50% plus selling your data to everyone
I can tell you exactly how much, 30% or 15% if you make less than a million a yearJust think, a company that gives away its products for free thinks it can charge 47.5%. Imagine how much Apple, whose only aim is to gouge customers, would be charging in a similar situation? My mind boggles.
The only way that will happen is if Zuckerberg goes all over the country trying to raise money for FaceBook and then freezes their bank account to get the attention of the person running the company. Then when the move comes out you'd have to get Andrew Garfield to play Zuckerberg. Problem with that is Andrew Garfield does not look enough like Jesse Eisenberg to play Zuckerberg. ?That there proves what kind of hypocritical nonsense all of this was. Zuckerberg should be ousted
This makes me think that my decision to delete my Meta accounts was the correct course of action.
That being said, I will defend Meta's right to set rates on their product. Consumers and developers can decide if the arrangement works for them and develop and consume those apps. Or they can opt out and not use the service or the apps. It will be interesting to see if Epic will charge similar commissions, or go lower, and force Meta to either compete on price, or offer a better service that justifies their higher fees.
Of course, I'm sure that agencies and legislators in the EU will be teeing up regulations and legislation that will affect US companies that offer these platforms. Not that there would be any companies in the EU that could or would compete...
That is for the appstore. This is different. They have to build metaverse and maintain it (I believe FB is spending as much as 10B for this). The 47.5 has two components, one is for the hardware platform, which is 30% and the other is the asset store, for which it is taking 17.5% - similar to Apple's 15 to 30% cut. So, it is not just going to be 30% or 15% by Apple on Apple's metaverse (or whatever it will be called when it comes). Trust me, don't hold your breath for 30% cut by Apple.I can tell you exactly how much, 30% or 15% if you make less than a million a year
Market players with perceived dominant positions often do that, because such regulation serves to keep out new competitors.As we've already seen, EU regulators will cut their legs off just like they're about to cut Apples legs off.
I almost wonder if this move was a cynical ploy to INVITE government regulation.
Something something.... We are for small business... Something something (insert more BS here)"But this is different".
So, if you make up a ******** name for the commission like "hardware platform fee", then you can pretend that 47.5% is really 17.5%. Seems reasonable.That is for the appstore. This is different. They have to build metaverse and maintain it (I believe FB is spending as much as 10B for this). The 47.5 has two components, one is for the hardware platform, which is 30% and the other is the asset store, for which it is taking 17.5% - similar to Apple's 15 to 30% cut. So, it is not just going to be 30% or 15% by Apple on Apple's metaverse (or whatever it will be called when it comes). Trust me, don't hold your breath for 30% cut by Apple.
It's still an open standard. There's nothing really stopping anyone from making any website they want and putting it up on the internet. Yea, there are some examples of search engines displaying more or less of certain websites, or certain hosting companies deciding what can or can't be hosted on their servers. But at the end of the day, the internet itself is still just as open today as it was in the beginning. There is nothing stopping anyone from putting a website up on the internet, and there is no global tax that some new innovator must pay in order to build a website and sell online.WAS, right up until corporations found they can make money on it.Metaverse is just skipping that part where it wasn’t profitable and going RIGHT to the profit. I mean, I’m sure I wouldn’t be reading macrumors right now if it wasn’t for the ad companies making it worth the owner’s time to keep running.