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That was worth a laugh from Facebook 😂 the most shady and hypocritical big tech company since Microsoft. 

I mean amazon takes up to 25% of each transaction on their store. For books it’s worse and can be above 50%. Movie theaters, retail stores. All do something similar. You’re paying for access to their customer base, their r&d to create, develop, maintain, update, expand the platform, space, brand, store, theater. You pay a fee to rent a space at a flea market, or sell something on eBay (remember eBay?). Google charges a similar amount as does steam, Uber, it’s a modern business model. I bet if fortnite had its own App Store they’d charge a similar amount to third party titles, too. Maybe they could make it work with less, but it certainly cannot be free. While I feel for them and always like the plight of the so-called “little guy” they’ve kneecapped themselves on both iOS and android platforms with this move. 

Apple doesn’t need to save any dang money by not including a decent charger with their flagship product. That’s tantamount to some kind of corporate negligence on their part. They’ve already biffed in this area quite a bit with the anemic chargers they included with iPhone and iPad at first. If anything they need to take a page out of the MacBook Pro and include a decent charger. 

Wish they’d do that for Macs, too. 

It would be real funny if Apple had all this in the pipe and merely bought Beats for “brand legitimacy” when entering and reinventing by distrusting an established industry rather than entering from scratch like it’s done in every industry? Like what if that was the veneer fake street cred? That’s what I wonder about.