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  • Logitech's Logi Dock is an all-in-one conferencing and USB-C dock solution

    kmobergkmoberg
    linkman said:
    $399 is quite high for this market. This does have some nice innovative features, but I could definitely forgo them.
    It's not. Look at any Lenovo or Dell business docking station, they all are in the $350-$499 market, and have significantly less features. The ONE thing I'm missing from this is ethernet. I'm also very curious if this actually supports dual monitors on a Mac too, something I doubt since it's not Thunderbolt and macOS does not support DisplayPort MST, otherwise, this is a very, very attractive product for me to work from home.
    watto_cobra

  • Fanhouse protests Apple's 30% commission on payments to creators

    kmobergkmoberg
    602warren said:
    While I am typically 100% in favor of Apples 30% cut, I see where Fanhouse is coming from on this one. For example if Epic sells me a token pack in game for $10, Apple gets $3 and Epic gets $7. Pretty straight forward. Epic made the token pack, sold me the token pack and keeps the money from its sale. But for Fanhouse, if I purchase a $10 private social page from someone inside the fanhouse app, Apple gets $3, Fanhouse gets $1 and the content creator gets $6. The content creator made what I’m buying, not Fanhouse. In essence, the content creator pays Apples 30% AND the Fanhouse 10% fee, when Fanhouse should be the one paying the 30% because its their app. Fanhouse is proposing $9 to the content creator, $0.30 to Apple and $0.70 to Fanhouse, which may be how the ebay and amazon apps work. When I sell on ebay I am using the ebay platform and have agreed to ebays fees, but I certainly dont see a variation in my pay out based on whether or not someone purchased the item via the web or app, I just see ebay take their standard cut.
    Apple doesn't charge Amazon or eBay anything, which is why you're seeing the same cut as normal there. Why? Because eBay and Amazon do not charge for digital goods using the Apple in-app purchase tools, which is the only thing Apple monetizes except for normal app purchases.
    williamlondon602warren

  • Fanhouse protests Apple's 30% commission on payments to creators

    kmobergkmoberg
    Maybe Fanhouse should protest Twitch too? How about YouTube? Google ads? They all take a significantly larger precentage of "fan" income than 30%. Twitch charges 50% for most of their partners IIRC, some larger creators probably has a smaller cut, but new and for the largers portion of their creators, they take 100% (for non affiliates). YouTube Gaming and YouTube in general same thing, and Google ads take 80%+ of the actual ad spending and give only a small percentage back to the site owners. 
    williamlondonforegoneconclusion