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Oracle will move headquarters to Texas from California
California to Oracle:
I have seen this before. Go ahead and move! Eventually your employees will leave your company and move back to the Golden State to start more successful and nimbler competitors. Their kids and spouses did not like the new climate especially the weather and social norms!
Unlike your new location, we still have the cleaner beaches, Hollywood, Disney Land, Open Spaces and Sun/Fun Diego just to name a few permanent entitlements. And by the way, our younger and better educated tech population do not like giving up the above or moving to far away from our gorgeous coast lines and beautiful unspoiled Mountains and Parks! You can move your company but its your employees and their happiness that really matters in the end! Sayonara, Adios, and Goodbye Oracle! 😜
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Judge backs Apple in BlueMail's App Store antitrust case
Plain and simple ruling that states:
No one has a RIGHT to be allowed in or to sell their crap in Apple App Store nor do they have a RIGHT to access to Apple’s customers via Apple’s platforms and devices unless Apple grants them the privilege subject to Apple’s wishes and revocation at anytime and for any reason and yes Apple can “SHERLOCK” your non-patentable ideals!
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Apple cuts App Store commission to 15% for developers paid less than $1M per year
$99 is a give away. Non-profits do not even have to pay the fee. The vast majority of apps in the store are FREE. The only ones that seem to be complaining are the one charging for apps. I have yet to heard of a free app developer complain of being “sherlocked” by Apple. Why do people in this time and age seem to think they are entitled to use the work or property of others for free?elijahg said:
Let me put it plain and simple for you: regulators can step in to stop perceived abuse of markets by large players, no matter who owns the company or its components.glennh said:Let me put it plain and simple for all. It’s Apple Shareholders’ Store and Platform.
Shareholder expect the management to generate profits. Since Apple owns the store, they do not have to let anyone else in their store which exist to generate profit from their platform. Just because they are better at generating “ginormous” amounts of cash, that by itself does not give anyone the “RIGHT” to be in their store.
Shareholders do expect profits, but they also expect that whilst the long-term prospects of the company are not damaged due to generation of the profits in the short term. By getting to a point where regulators have begun investigations, Cook had set Apple up for short term gain but long term pain. And that pain has now arrived. Profit doesn't have to be Apple's sole objective, it certainly wasn't in the Jobs era, and Apple doesn't *have* to kowtow to shareholders. In fact Jobs famously said if you make great products the profit will come, he pretty much ignored profit and shareholders over making great products. Cook is totally different in that regard, he's almost solely profit-driven, he's all about the share price. Due to the primary objective of most companies to produce maximum profit, regulators are there to ensure abuse of the market doesn't happen.
Oh I didn't realise Macs were free. The £99 developer fee doesn't exist and the 15/30% cut doesn't exist? Damn well all those regulators must have it wrong and Apple are giving everyone a free ride. Well.glennh said:I have not seen a single developer or anyone else spend a single penny when it comes to paying for Apple’s various yearly development, legal, contractors, patent, and employees cost. These costs are not cheap and shareholders expect the management to recover these costs.Apple unlike most companies give a lot of other people and companies a free ride in respect to above listed cost. With that said helping the little guy/gal out is a good thing to do. But letting a million plus dollar corporations ride for free “ain’t” a thing I am prepared to forgive as an Apple shareholder.
The current 15 to 30 per cent is a bargain to what should be a higher rate for using Apple “privately owned” platform and gaining access to the platform customers. The last time I checked I do not think Macy’s has ever given Nordstrom equal access to its stores, customers or products. Nor has either one of them let someone display or sell a product in their stores for just 15 to 30 percent or for FREE!
All I can say is I'm glad you aren't running Apple. You really think the iPhone would have the success it has now if they didn't have the huge variety of third party apps?
Just like in the real world, you do not have the right to let your dog crap on another person property. You also do not have the right to move into a store and set up your business without permission, without paying rent and obeying the rules as set by the property owner. -
Apple cuts App Store commission to 15% for developers paid less than $1M per year
Do you really think Candy Crush alone could cover the cost of what Apple spends let say in a single quarter to employ people and systems used to update the various iOS frameworks, server farms used to host the store and system software along with the various quality control and security related cost? I think not! The 15 to 30 per cent most likely just breaks even or loses money.NinjaMan said:
Not seen a single developer spend a single penny on Apple's cost? What do you think the 30% Apple takes is for? Are you suggesting that in addition to the 30% (now 15% in some cases) that developers should make additional contributions? Perhaps they should hold a YouTube telethon to raise money for the charity that is the Apple App Store?glennh said:Let me put it plain and simple for all. It’s Apple Shareholders’ Store and Platform.
Shareholder expect the management to generate profits. Since Apple owns the store, they do not have to let anyone else in their store which exist to generate profit from their platform. Just because they are better at generating “ginormous” amounts of cash, that by itself does not give anyone the “RIGHT” to be in their store.I have not seen a single developer or anyone else spend a single penny when it comes to paying for Apple’s various yearly development, legal, contractors, patent, and employees cost. These costs are not cheap and shareholders expect the management to recover these costs.Apple unlike most companies give a lot of other people and companies a free ride in respect to above listed cost. With that said helping the little guy/gal out is a good thing to do. But letting a million plus dollar corporations ride for free “ain’t” a thing I am prepared to forgive as an Apple shareholder.
The current 15 to 30 per cent is a bargain to what should be a higher rate for using Apple “privately owned” platform and gaining access to the platform customers. The last time I checked I do not think Macy’s has ever given Nordstrom equal access to its stores, customers or products. Nor has either one of them let someone display or sell a product in their stores for just 15 to 30 percent or for FREE!
If you don't think there's profit built into the 15% - 30% you're crazy and you really have no idea how much money some of these apps really make...Candy Crush alone could support all of Apple's costs and more than likely still make them a profit.
Be careful what you ask for because Apple could go back to charging for every single software upgrade and charging ten of tens of thousand dollars for access to its developer tools and customers. Epic, EA, Adobe and other developers with big pockets would love this because it would keep the small guy out of the game and leave only the big boys to fleece and serve the flock.
The various regulators can moan and groan all they want but when it comes to presenting a valid evidentiary antitrust case before a court of law they better have more evidence than the fact that Apple makes the most profit, has the better hardware/software systems that customers TRUST and are willing to pay a premium price to access.
You got one thing right Apple “ain’t“ a charity. It is a “private” business entity that is ENTITLED to run its business for a profit within the various legal frameworks and customs as it see fit.
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Apple cuts App Store commission to 15% for developers paid less than $1M per year
Let me put it plain and simple for all. It’s Apple Shareholders’ Store and Platform.
Shareholder expect the management to generate profits. Since Apple owns the store, they do not have to let anyone else in their store which exist to generate profit from their platform. Just because they are better at generating “ginormous” amounts of cash, that by itself does not give anyone the “RIGHT” to be in their store.I have not seen a single developer or anyone else spend a single penny when it comes to paying for Apple’s various yearly development, legal, contractors, patent, and employees cost. These costs are not cheap and shareholders expect the management to recover these costs.Apple unlike most companies give a lot of other people and companies a free ride in respect to above listed cost. With that said helping the little guy/gal out is a good thing to do. But letting a million plus dollar corporations ride for free “ain’t” a thing I am prepared to forgive as an Apple shareholder.
The current 15 to 30 per cent is a bargain to what should be a higher rate for using Apple “privately owned” platform and gaining access to the platform customers. The last time I checked I do not think Macy’s has ever given Nordstrom equal access to its stores, customers or products. Nor has either one of them let someone display or sell a product in their stores for just 15 to 30 percent or for FREE!
