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  • Social media apps must pay App Store 30% for boosts

    LeoMCLeoMC
    LeoMC said:
    Make me understand one thing: why would you - the regular users - care that a social network is paying Apple a % of the sales it makes through AS and because of Apple's clients?!
    Because in the end we don’t want the little guys to be choked by the really really big guys with big pockets, because it hurts competition and the concept of a free market.

    This is the irony of it all: many people on this platform defend Apple for their position (“they came up with the platform, why shouldn’t they be able to decide the rules?”) which is a free market thought. However, this is not limitless. 
    Once a a player becomes too big due to a free market allowing them to grow, they BECOME the market, hurting the very thing that made them the way they are.
    And you think Meta, Twitter (soon to be owned by the richest man in the world) or YouTube are "little guys"?
    Alex_V

  • Meta lashes out about Apple's new charge for social media boosts

    LeoMCLeoMC
    Money to boost posts is money out of nothing so why would Meta have a problem sharing the revenue with the platform that offers acces to clients that are willing to pay for that "nothing"?
    I know that 100% is better than 70% but I also know that 70% is better than 0%.
    neo-techJaiOh81radarthekatwatto_cobra

  • Social media apps must pay App Store 30% for boosts

    LeoMCLeoMC
    Make me understand one thing: why would you - the regular users - care that a social network is paying Apple a % of the sales it makes through AS and because of Apple's clients?!
    omasouAlex_V

  • Consumer demand for smartphones will continue to fall into 2023

    LeoMCLeoMC
    DAalseth said:
    LeoMC said:
    I wanted to get the 14 Pro but the fact that it is 300€ more expensive than it is in US is making me completely rethink Apple. I like their products and I will stil be using them, but I will make sure my upgrades are rarer.
    That is the Catch 22 Apple, and a lot of other companies, are in. They raise the price to maintain profits, so people upgrade less often which cuts into profits. This is helped by improving quality that allows things to stay functional and useful for longer. My Toyota dealer is offering me all sorts of deals to get me to trade in my 17 year old Prius. No reason to. Apple and my call carrier would love to have me upgrade my three year old phone. Why? Heck I get regular notes from the realtor that we used to buy our house. ‘Lots of great properties are available, how about trading to a newer place’. But the one I have works so there’s no reason to trade. 

    Improving quality is the enemy of consumer culture.
    My only problem is with the fact that Apple expects me to pay (way) more for the same product just because I buy it from an EU country; I understand the $/€ difference (pre-Ukraine) and the fact that VAT is higher than sales tax in US, but a 300€ difference (or little under 30%) is ludicrous.
    JanNL

  • Zuckerberg really wants iPhone users to shift to WhatsApp

    LeoMCLeoMC
    Meanwhile, more and more WhatsApp users are migrating to Telegram.
    watto_cobraAlex1N