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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by kneebonian on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:45PM (#33885933)
> But originally the App Store was leveraging their existing payment infrastructure e.g. the one they use for iPhone sales. Purchases and invoices were done through SAP which was manually configured to support those price points.

Can I just say finding out that Apple uses SAP on the backend is just one of those things that shakes my world view.

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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by r00fus on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:41PM (#33886712)
From one of my internal contacts who worked there & had to actually interface with the SAP implementation:

1) It's one of the largest SAP deployments in the US if not the world

2) SAP (at the time) was the only one who could offer an ERP that scaled to do what Apple wanted.

Homegrown enterprise software is one of those things that sounds great until you realize you're re-inventing a lot of code dealing with regulations (tax/hr legal) that is other companies bread & butter so it's worth "paying their price" rather than getting it wrong and being on the wrong side of litigation/legislation.

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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by sokoloff on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:55PM (#33886897)
The only thing I’d rather work on less than SAP is rolling my own ERP system.
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by TAForObvReasons on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:54PM (#33886095)
Amazon used Oracle until a few years ago, Google accounting teams used Excel, etc.
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by orhmeh09 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:00PM (#33886176)
Do Google accountants use Sheets?
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by kccqzy on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:43PM (#33886731)
Excel? Small and medium companies probably can run on Excel but I'm sure no large company can run their finance entirely with Excel. Google switched from Oracle to SAP. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/05/google-will-stop-using-oracl...
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by mwest217 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @05:05PM (#33887786)
I don't think that's been true for over a decade. Google has a pretty sophisticated internal payments system that handles terms customers, invoicing, payment initiation, and lots more.

I understand that Cloud specifically is switching to manage accounting using SAP, but most of Google runs via our own in-house systems.

Source: work at Google in payments. This is only my personal opinion.

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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by rgovostes on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @05:10PM (#33887836)
The guy who originally set up Apple’s SAP integration in the 80s(?) used to run Caffe Frascati, a popular café/music venue in downtown San Jose.
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