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Elon Musk is the one having his Escalator moment to put everyone on notice.


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2022 May 3, 2:26pm   405 views  6 comments

by Tenpoundbass   ➕follow (7)   💰tip   ignore  

Calls Apple App Store a 30% tax on the internet. Now there's some thought provoking insight from a guy that has seen the books.

https://mediarightnews.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-at-apple-says-that-app-store-fee-is-like-having-a-30-tax-on-the-internet/?source=patrick.net

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1   WookieMan   2022 May 3, 5:20pm  

Tenpoundbass says
Calls Apple App Store a 30% tax on the internet. Now there's some thought provoking insight from a guy that has seen the books.

Who cares? Don't use Apple then. My wife sells a product that is 50-60% net margins on a sale for a proprietary product no one else can sell.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. In Apples case they created the game. If the cost is too high for developers, get a different career or create your own app store? Or stop using the app store. Musk ain't gonna change the game unless he creates a new one.
2   SunnyvaleCA   2022 May 3, 6:01pm  

I'd agree that it's a 30% tax on Apps. Except for my AAPL stock holdings, I'd prefer a much lower fee so that there are more/better/cheaper apps available to me. But that's the price consumers pay for Apple risking all that they did in the 2010s to create the phone ecosystem.

The only concern I have is that Apple has something like 60% or 70% market share in the USA and so might be able to behave monopolistically. But it's not per se illegal to have a monopoly. Instead a monopoly must just refrain from certain monopolistic actions designed to thwart competition. Apple's isn't requiring, for example, that developers wishing to be on the Apple App store not be on competitors' app stores, which would leverage their current market clout to actively discourage investing in competitors. Apple isn't throwing startups off the App Store, waiting for their valuations to be destroyed, and then buying them up for pennies on the dollar. Apple isn't leveraging their monopoly in iPhones to gain advantage in other markets (not that the iPhone monopoly is anywhere near strong enough to do that).

The App Store's broad range of offerings will surely have some conflicts with Apple's own broad range of apps and services. (Apple Pay -vs- PayPal for example) But those are individual special cases being handled privately and in court. It's not widespread, monopolistic behavior.
3   clambo   2022 May 3, 6:13pm  

Apple rules, resistance is futile.

I think someday another phone will be popular, but by then I’ll be dead.

Maybe the government should pay you to download the app; oh, wait that’s if you buy a Tesla.

I do like that he trolled Twitter then took it over from the assholes.

But, if I were going to spend $44 billion, I would try to create something actually useful.

But, it’s his Monopoly money.
4   Patrick   2022 Jul 6, 3:09pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-approves-legislation-that-requires-apple-to-accept-side-loaded-apps/


The EU approves legislation that requires Apple to accept side-loaded apps and more
Apple will no longer be the decider of what's allowed on iPhone.


When you buy a phone, it's your phone and you should be able to do whatever you want with it, including installing apps that Apple does not like.
5   1337irr   2022 Jul 6, 4:18pm  

Salesforce has an App store...nobody cares about that monopoly. Everything is replaceable.
6   GNL   2022 Jul 6, 6:57pm  

Tenpoundbass says

Calls Apple App Store a 30% tax on the internet. Now there's some thought provoking insight from a guy that has seen the books.

https://mediarightnews.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-at-apple-says-that-app-store-fee-is-like-having-a-30-tax-on-the-internet/?source=patrick.net

How am I being taxed by Apple by using the internet? I'm an Android user.

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