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neoncat said: This is the result of zero competition and zero reason for Apple to do anything but protect its 15/30% moat. Apple has said that 17% commission is approximately the break even point for the App Store. So the difference between …
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bulk001 said: JMaille said: I was going to post a comment about this before all the Apple haters jumped in and started spouting nonsense about this being a big win for developers and consumers, but then I decided why bother. It's obvi…
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nubus said: What does matter is that the VP of Finance lied under oath to subvert the verdict and Apple knew he was doing so. Another judge came to the same conclusion. And so this is becoming a criminal investigation against the VP and Apple. C…
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mrstep said: 9secondkox2 said: Seems like a smart man’s genuine appreciation of another smart man. Good to see. Cook is they’re to look ahead and can see the potential blessing of current moves down the road We had 50 years of U…
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apmiller said: Sounds like most of you are opposed to moving more manufacturing back to the USA by balancing trade inequities through tariffs. People oppose it because it won't work. For example, tariffs don't just increase the price of co…
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We’re living in a very corrupt age and business leaders appear to be fine with a lot of the corruption.
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elijahg said: I'm not saying there is a law around it, but anticompetitive behaviour is very opinionated and it would be much easier for Valve to justify that they "need" that profit to operate and invest than Apple can. This is especially true …
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elijahg said: I suspect if the 30% commission was Apple's only major source of profit, like the commission on the Steam store is Valve's only real source of profit, the outcome would have been different. What would that be based on though? …
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gatorguy said: To summarize: One, after trial, the Court found that Apple’s 30 percent commission “allowed it to reap supracompetitive operating margins” and was not tied to the value of its intellectual property, and thus, was anticompetitive. …
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I've always disagreed with the idea that anti-steering inside apps qualified as anticompetitive behavior (iOS provides a myriad of ways for app developers to communicate with their customers) BUT lying under oath and withholding of evidence is a maj…
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LOL at "hostile and political". The current administration is intentionally vandalizing the economy in every way possible.
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Negotiators from Japan said that the Trump administration couldn't provide a consistent answer when asked what Japan needed to do to lower tariffs. This is what tells you the Trump administration is just engaging in economic vandalism against the U.…
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AppleZulu said: I feel like a lot of people don’t understand how tariffs work. They are a government tax on goods being imported into this country. The US importers pay the tax. Then, either they eat that cost, or add it to the price of the good…
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shrave10 said: Meanwhile US manufactured cars gain market share, gain advantages of scaling up volumes, drop in costs > positive feedback loop. That isn't what is happening. Trump wants to put 25% tariffs on auto parts and the result wil…
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tiredskills said: zeus423 said: Warren is a career politician. I’m sure she’s very familiar with corruption. No she isn't, she's a career academic who only got into politics in her 60s. Compare that to Trump's political awake…
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brianus said: Again, would LOVE to know what you think “corruption” is. Back in the 1990s, the GOP standard for impeaching a president was Bill Clinton lying about a sexual affair in a legal deposition for a civil lawsuit. That's it. They cla…
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FYI to people who don't think "corruption" is an appropriate term: the head of Treasury is having private meetings with select private sector financial big wigs and telling them in advance that the tariffs in China are going to be reduced significan…
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At this point, it's already clear that the Trump administration only has two goals when it comes to economics: A. Do as much damage to the U.S. and world economy as possible. B. Stuff pockets with $$ from insider trading and corrupt/illegal finan…
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Sabotage by saboteurs. Don't expect anything else to be happening.
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Ransomware...a form of extortion. And which countries are currently run by administrations that like to use extortion as part of their modus operandi?