Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store
by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:06PM
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All good. But iOS has a marginal cost of essentially zero. So its presence (or absence) has effectively no impact on the marginal cost of an iPhone.
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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store
by halostatue on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @01:39AM
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Given the ongoing security updates and years of upgrades provided to older phones, I would argue that the marginal cost of iOS is NOT zero nor anywhere close to it. Relatively low, sure, but one would need to figure the amortized cost of ~5–6 years of OS updates across the devices who are receiving the latest iOS this fall.