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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by yokto on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:20PM (#24192919)
It's about balancing the market. That's why anti-trust exists. Would you want an insulin monopoly to be able to have 95% margin? Probably not. That's why it's illegal.

Too many usinesses can't live without access to iPhone users.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by kbutler on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:26PM (#24192980)
Epi-pen approx 97% $8/injector, so $16/two-pack, selling for $700 in 2016 https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/01/epipen-outrage-silico...

Of course, software sales have much higher margin of production cost (every copy but the first is free-to-make).

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by cwhiz on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @07:58AM (#24197610)
iOS is the minority smartphone OS in the US and in the world. In the world their share is under 20%. In the US it’s under 50%. In both cases, shrinking.

If Apple/iOS is a minority that means someone else must be a majority. Who, exactly, do you think should be the target of that balancing, and why?

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