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BiCC said:

zeus423 said:

“Apple's App Store tax has been a hot button issue for quite some time…”

Not everyone agrees that it is a “tax.” Can I sell goods on eBay without paying a fee? It’s simply the cost of doing business. If companies don’t like it, build the fee into the price. 

You just broke your own argument. "Build the Fee into the price" - that's called TAX.  Put it on the Price Tag like Euro Trash or put it on the Receipt Canadian and American Style.  It's still a Tax. 

Huh?   So the cost of paying your employees, paying to keep the lights in you store, or the cost of your store lease is a tax?  Those are all costs of doing business, just as the Apple App Store fee and are not a tax.  Taxes come from governments and Apple is (not yet) a government.   You’re normally PRICE your product to cover its acquisition costs as well as the costs related to sell it plus your profit margins. Just as was suggested.  That is not a tax, even in some sort of expanded definition of tax.   It’s a normal cost of sales. 

Lol.   

Don’t tell the users of multi thousand dollar Strandberg headless or other brand headless guitars they look funny and shouldn’t be used on stage.  

AppleZulu said:

This is irresponsible reporting. The headline and lede make it seem like this was somehow a failure on the part of the iPad itself. It was not.

Read on, and you'll understand that the issue was that, once dropped, the iPad became a wedged-in obstruction to flight control mechanisms. The same would've been the case if the dropped item had been a Microsoft Surface, or a paper notebook in a rigid binder. There is no fault in the hardware design or software operation of the iPad itself.

The headline is 100% correct.  Nothing in the headline implies that it was a failure of an Apple product.  The headline couldn’t have been simpler and more correct. 

40domi said:

Gaming is killing generation after generation of kids IMO, every government should put huge taxes on it, perhaps it will make lazy parents think twice, before they indulge their kids for an easier life!

You’re. It wrong.  I’m not sure taxing it to death is the solution.  But Gaming is addictive and a waste of time and resources for kids.  We had a Wii and I got a Wii U right before they got discontinued and we did finally got a switch.  But mostly just for an occasional Mario Kart family night.  I wouldn’t have an Xbox or PlayStation in the house.  And we only had a few mobile games on the devices.  Once my son became an adult he bought himself an Xbox and then a PlayStation and let himself fall into that whirlpool.  Luckily he’s realized it and has drastically cut back and is limiting his gaming.