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