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Re:EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @06:56PM (#43777551)
You are trying to tell me that credit card processing fees are negligible, software engineers work for free, advertising doesn’t require overhead, etc…

I guess that kind of thinking that everything is basically free is why alot of startups just fail so easily.

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Re:EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M by immibis on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @07:44PM (#43777896)
None of them are close to 30 billion!!!
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Re:EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M by seanmcdirmid on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:02AM (#43779971)
Your profit is whatever your revenue minus costs. Plenty of app stores have operated in the red that we know this isn’t trivial to get right. It definitely is nowhere near negligible as patent asserted. I’m frustrated by how dumb HN is getting lately.
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Re:EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M by immibis on Thursday April 24, 2025 @08:58AM (#43782170)
You are trying to tell me that all of that stuff combined makes up more than a small fraction of $30 billion per year.
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