Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]
by smoldesu on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:36PM
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Are they wrong to do so? It makes no sense for them to make less money on a competitor's platform. There's also no real alternative to YouTube Premium on iOS (see: sideloading limitations) so they could arguably charge $50 a month and retain most of their iOS customers. This is your reward for locking yourself in a room with two hungry corporations.
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Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]
by alimov on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:49PM
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> so they could arguably charge $50 a month and retain most of their iOS customers.
Source?
Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]
by smoldesu on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @05:03PM
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It's hyperbole, but people would still buy it. On iOS, Google is allowed to monopolize YouTube and it shows us a dark vision for the future of platforms that enable this kind of lockdown. Google can treat the platform like a second class citizen, buy up latent iOS advertising, force people to use an inferior app and still profit handsomely off it, all at the same time.
This doesn't have to be the case. But Apple's lockdown enables Google's tyranny, so there's really no other choice. On other platforms, I can install apps like NewPipe on watch YouTube in the background without needing to download anything from Google besides the videos I want. Google is not the savior of this story by any means, but they're not afraid to play Apple's game of turning iOS users into hostages.
Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]
by scarface74 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:52PM
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They got to make up for that $18B+ a year they pay Apple to be the default search engine some kind of way.