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12Strangers said: Let me get this out of the way first; Spotify your “music service” sucks. The world would be a much better place without your service. Hey Epic those rules have been in place at least 10 years. Why did you wait until now t…
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"Original" as in won in a bidding war?
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He's absolute correct, Apple holds the keys to the kingdom, and to sell your wares inside its gates cough up 30% or you won't be let inside. Monopoly abuse plan and simple. This is just the beginning, antitrust charges are next.
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Does expect the Apple Watch to tell anything while you are having a heart attack, just ask a good friend of mine.
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From the NYT, Twelve years ago, Apple introduced the App Store, a peculiar online marketplace for the year-old iPhone. It had 500 offerings. Apple told app makers it would take a 30 percent cut of their sales, and few complained.Today, the App Stor…
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EsquireCats said: Lots of multi-billion dollar, profit-at-any-cost companies talking about the 30% cut as if they’re looking out for small companies. What a pile of b/s. Small businesses and not-for-profits are enabled by the App Store, not…
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magman1979 said: Yup, it's time for the all the other scum-bag, dick wad CEO's to start jumping on the bandwagon of Apple is EVIL, after all, they need to support their brother's in arms, or maybe wallets... BTW, ArsTechnica just CRUSHED Ep…
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SpamSandwich said: Screw ‘em. They can always lower or raise what they choose to charge customers. Apple will still get 30% of that. you just described what a monopoly does perfectly.
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Beats said: wizard69 said: Apple gets caught again stealing somebody else IP and then cries about it. Sorry but PanOptis owns those patents for the same reason Apple owns patents, that is to make money. Frankly this is just anothe…
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MacPro said: SpamSandwich said: Malls are dead and all it took was a global overreaction to COVID to destroy everything. I now know personally several people who’ve died from COVID, but even I recognize the number of people seriously a…
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I wish those malls could be housing for all the people that are now homeless because Amazon's monopoly on retail has made them unemployed and unable to pay their rent or mortgages.
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Beats said: Probably the last CEO of a major tech company to become a billionaire further debunking the "greedy Apple" myth. Usually it's the founders who become billionaires, Cook was not there at the beginning and may be one of a few CEO…
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If it smells like a monopoly, redirects you browser to it's own services then it's not a duck it's a monopoly.
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Apple next will re-invent the wheel, can't wait to see if it looks like the last 6 iPhone bodies.
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An ancient hardware device called "eyes" can tell you when your windshield is cracked too.
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It nice to see two monopolies fighting, keep at it greedy titans.
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M68000 said: Oh come on Tim. I’m a big Apple fan and have their phones since the beginning and several Macs. That being said, the days of “competition” may be gone. Let’s face it, Apple is now so huge it just scoops up anything that is rea…
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MONOPOLY APPLE
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Beats said: Ungrateful fu**ers. Time for Apple to take all their markets and destroy them. Wish Steve was here to see this. Cook is way too nice. great idea kill all the small developers and kill innovation and progress.
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"Two major publications have interviewed my friend about his experience and will run stories about Apple's failure to make the Apple Watch the health device they say it is." Seriously I imagine that is how many of you have read my comment, jumping…