xyzzy-xxx said:

foregoneconclusion said:

xyzzy-xxx said: You are wrong here: Price increase would come from the developer (absolute price) and Apple would participate indirectly (absolute commission increases because it is percentage)

You're not addressing the fact that Apple constantly updates the iPhone hardware, the operating system, the developers tools, the server structure etc. The idea that Apple collects the commission without doing anything in return has no basis in reality. The "nothing in return" part is critical to the classic business definition of rent seeking. 

So you think that this updates are not compensated with the $191.9 billion iPhone revenue (2021) alone ?

Are you joking or you are just unable to think rationally?

Revenue is first of all not profit, so the revenue in itself cannot compensate the updates.

Secondly, there are more than 2 billion gadgets in use that connect to the App store, therefore clearly the NEW iphone sales cannot support the update for all those units already in use.

You don’t know Apple’s cost structure, you don’t know their profitability requirement, it’s not your business why they want to make money and why they don’t want to sell below costs like other companies until they go bankrupt. They don’t have a chinese government like Huawei has to bail them out or keep them artificially profitable.

Let people who want to use iphones use them and others who are not happy by Android or any other operating system that exists, nobody is stopping them from it.

Apple has as much right to make money and charge for their services as other companies have to do the same, unless you want everything to be free and basically kill any innovation, progress, growth or wealth. Let’s just all be poor and live in a communist country where anybody who has more than a trouser or a shirt is an evil capitalist.

He didn’t say anything bad. That’s his job to warn investors. There is a risk for sure, but they didn’t say it’s a bad thing.

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