Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014

Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by mikekij on Thursday June 18, 2020 @11:44PM (#23570742)

Well, 30% isn’t their margin. It’s their gross revenue. Calculating the margin would require knowing their hosting / development costs for the App Store ecosystem.

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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by stephc_int13 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @11:51PM (#23570786)

Sure, they have some infracture and personel cost to maintain the store.

But I think we're talking about millions here, not Billions...

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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by threeseed on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:53AM (#23571086)

And what about the costs of designing, building, marketing and supporting iOS ?

Very much getting into the hundreds of millions if not billions.

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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by stephc_int13 on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:00AM (#23571118)

This is their product, and they are not giving it away for free, last time I checked...

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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by lotsofpulp on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:00AM (#23570838)

I wonder why a competitor hasn’t sprung up if it’s just millions.

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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by fomojola on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:12AM (#23570893)

You need a phone to be a competitor.

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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by threeseed on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:54AM (#23571096)

There are hundreds of phone manufacturers.

Should be pretty easy to topple Apple if you just need to throw a few million at the problem.

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