Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)

Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by HatchedLake721 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:17PM (#29914910)

Developers for 10+ years abandoned Symbian, BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone and everything else and instead focused on better hardware, software and developer APIs (iOS and Android) and led other companies to die because either their hardware wasn’t good enough or consumers were abandoning them because they couldn’t download their favorite apps.

So maybe Apple did something “right” to deserve millions of developers and billion+ consumers to chose them instead of others?

It’s awesome to be in 2022 and act like “Apple doesn’t deserve anything”. Look at last 15 years of mobile history and what Apple has done to this industry.

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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by tomxor on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:36PM (#29915158)

Apple did do something right a long time ago... but it doesn't mean they get an indefinite 30% cut of the entire world.

I don't have a stake in this, I don't own an iPhone or Android phone, or any smart phone and never have... I just see a rent seeker abusing their position as much as possible.

> Developers for 10+ years abandoned Symbian, BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone and everything else and instead focused on better hardware, software and developer APIs [...]

Note that we are discussing a huge markup on a material service, not merely software.

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