Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces
by rebelos on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:48PM
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The real crime is that they prohibit developers from itemizing this fee for the consumer. That's what Epic et al should be focusing on. Customers would be aghast at the extractive abuse of monopoly power after having already paid (in many cases) an exorbitant sum for their device. Let the free market deal with the problem.
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You're correct. It should be illegal to prevent apps from breaking down where the fees go. This is truly anti-consumer behavior.
Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces
by JMTQp8lwXL on Friday May 21, 2021 @11:02PM
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Where is the line item for paying with Visa/MasterCard/etc?
It's irrelevant because it's an immaterial amount. Itemising 3% has no effect, compared to 30%.
I would support this, as I believe that we pay high taxes because we're pacified into not thinking about the amount.
Nobody cares about the app store cut.
Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces
by fshbbdssbbgdd on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:13PM
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A friend argued that the App Store cut is justified because it’s a free market and if consumers don’t think the value of the store is worth paying the cut, they can go get a different phone. Apple banning developers from informing consumers about the cut is a problem for this argument.
Consumers couldn’t care less, for sure. It’s only developers and corporations who cares.
It is a lot like all the furor over patent trolls. It only really hurts large companies, but techies decided it was somehow victimizing them and screamed about it constantly but consumers still didnt care.