Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ...
by chrischen on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:12PM
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Your assumptions are wrong about me, so you may want to revise your position because it’s based on a misguided characterization of my motivations.
It’s up to Apple to improve their own user experience, or suffer the lack of sales otherwise. It’s nonsensical that the government should step in to improve the user experience for private products… especially to the benefit of a third party private company.
Framing “you can’t buy Kindle books on iOS” as Apple’s fault is spinning it because you can also say it’s Amazon’s fault for reducing their user experience by refusing to pay Apple’s platform fees.
Sure, making Apple products all free would be great for user experience, but is not only non-sustainable but non-sensical business practice.
So I assume that you’re an investor in $AAPL, and not a user of Apple products?
Nobody is arguing that these lock-in moves won’t make them money, but that their greed does harm the user experience - the result being that you can’t buy Kindle books on iPhone now (and countless other such examples).