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"sooner rather than later"
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,

Now, if only Apple would bring their card to places not called USA.

aderutter said:

The best things Apple could do are get rid of in-app purchases and mobile ads entirely.
Let’s go back to adequate pricing of apps in their entirety - i.e. significant up-front pricing.
I know it won’t happen but I can dream.

I remember selling basic software in the $100s and more sophisticated titles for a $1000+ to the same people that now complain if an app is $4.99 or $9.99. That being said, I love Serif's model for their Affinity family of software versus Adobe's monthly nickel and dime model.

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Happy_Noodle_Boy said:

EsquireCats said:

The board should pay attention, these kinds of directives don't usually align with growth.

Given the chairman of the board is person making the comments I don’t imagine they care. 

In most companies the board can replace the chairman with cause. In this case I think Z still holds a majority of the stock so it would be tougher to do. However Z has been becoming increasingly erratic and shrill. IMO he is just one perceived personal slight away from doing something really damaging to the company. He's never been a great businessman, just lucky and unethical. At some point that's going to catch up to him.

Zuckerberg really is a more shrill and far less elegant version of Elliot Carver, the megalomaniac from Tomorrow Never Dies.

Many of the posters here seem to think that Apple is punishing small producers and craft shops selling low quantities of products. The companies affected are well established third party vendors that spent months or years getting into the Apple Store. They know there's a price to pay for the exposure on Apple's shelves, virtual or digital. Once the 15 - 30 day payable changes are made, the flow of cash will return to normal.