Re:Apple complies with Dutch ruling, lets dating apps use ot...
by smoldesu on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:40PM
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> They do? In my experience it's much higher
I'm not sure where you work (or where you live), but my experience has indeed been that payment processing is a pretty cut-and-dried technology at this point. People charge insane overhead for it because, as a marginal utility, other people have no way of determining what it's actual value is.
> That's what a lot of people say, but how much of that is _really_ they just don't want to pay a 30% cut?
I don't really think it matters, the statement is true nonetheless. If third-party app stores exist, Apple would be undercut in a heartbeat. By obstructing other people from competing with their App Store business, they're eliminating the need for the market to set a price.
You can argue to the ends of the earth with that logic (lord knows Apple keeps lawyers on retainer for that express purpose), but Apple's strategy here is to prevent them from having to compete with the rest of the market. There's a reason why European regulators are wising up to this nonsense (and a reason Apple obeys); it's a lost case. Everyone knows that it's dumb, the only defenses I've seen for it boil down to apologism and misunderstanding.
Why do we need to keep giving the world's largest company the benefit of the doubt? Can't we just hold them accountable for once?
I'm not sure where you work (or where you live), but my experience has indeed been that payment processing is a pretty cut-and-dried technology at this point. People charge insane overhead for it because, as a marginal utility, other people have no way of determining what it's actual value is.
> That's what a lot of people say, but how much of that is _really_ they just don't want to pay a 30% cut?
I don't really think it matters, the statement is true nonetheless. If third-party app stores exist, Apple would be undercut in a heartbeat. By obstructing other people from competing with their App Store business, they're eliminating the need for the market to set a price.
You can argue to the ends of the earth with that logic (lord knows Apple keeps lawyers on retainer for that express purpose), but Apple's strategy here is to prevent them from having to compete with the rest of the market. There's a reason why European regulators are wising up to this nonsense (and a reason Apple obeys); it's a lost case. Everyone knows that it's dumb, the only defenses I've seen for it boil down to apologism and misunderstanding.
Why do we need to keep giving the world's largest company the benefit of the doubt? Can't we just hold them accountable for once?