App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee

Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by sircastor on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:42PM (#30198516)

If it were 20%, people would complain it wasn’t 10%. And If it were 10%, they’d complain it should be 5%.

And there are plenty of other malls to move to, is just that your customers aren’t there.

I really don’t get the complaint about Apple’s monopoly on iOS. To me, it’s like VW’s monopoly on Jettas.

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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by jliptzin on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:58PM (#30200829)

By your logic they should just charge 80 or 90%

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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by sircastor on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:29AM (#30203241)

We’ll, that’s where market forces push back on you. If you abuse your position then people (developers willing to work on your platform) walk. There’s a threshold, and I don’t know what it is, but Apples platform and it’s customers are currently worth the 15/30%.

I suspect that the number of developers at 80% would fall off a cliff. But that would be Apples decision to make. They set it at 30% and there are apparently plenty of developers who are willing to pay that rather than not develop for the platform.

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