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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by Jommi on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:16PM (#24192879)
High product margins are usually signs of monopolistic powers used, otherwise profits would slowly move towards cost as time goes forward.

This has not been the case with Apple.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by CamelCaseName on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:38PM (#24193584)
This is only true of products with substitutes. The extreme example being commodities.

Pretty much any luxury brand has high product margins, but certainly not for lack of competition.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by Jommi on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @02:07AM (#24195754)
Exactly, and luxury brands are characterized by their electivity. While and appstore has formed to become something close to a virtual public good.
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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by lancepioch on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @02:54AM (#24195929)
Google has basically the same profit margins with their Pixel phones compared to Apple and Android has 85% market share. Yeah you can sideload any app you want on your Android, but I've heard of no even half serious 3rd party competitors to the Play store. Not sure what the point is here.
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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by askafriend on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @09:05AM (#24209951)
What do you think of coffee?
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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by Jommi on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @06:58PM (#24217842)
That I can make it myself at home and it comes to around 10cents?

Or get it from a cafe, and value my time at around 2-3€ per cup

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