I hope we don’t make a habit of talking about prediction markets on MBW regularly. These types of platforms don’t need more time in the headspace of the average person.
Sorry, I am with Christina and Andy, if I have a payment relationship, with say, Amazon for Kindle and Audible, why can’t I buy a book in the app?
Secondly, if I buy a book through Amazon, the payment goes through Amazon, the book comes through Amazon’s network, so no additional costs for Apple, and the book originally comes from the publishing house directly to Amazon. At no point does the book itself or the payment ever touch any of Apple’s network to cause them additional costs, let alone costs in worth of 30% of the book. Also, if I buy a book from Amazon for $1, that “costs” Apple 33c. If I buy a book for $100, it “costs” Apple $33. How? Why?
When Amazon releases an update to the app, yes, that runs through Apple and they have to provide the bandwidth to download the app. But, if I spend on average $200 a year on books, it doesn’t cost Apple $66 over the year to download those updates, and if I only buy 1 book for $1 in a year, Apple gets 33c to pay for those updates.
If I decide I don’t trust the app developer and want to have the comfort and security of paying through Apple, that is something else entirely, and that is my decision. But if I am happy to use a payment method with a company I already have a relationship with, and the payment and the contents never touches Apple’s infrastructure, there is simply no justification for those fees.
Charge the app developer for the download of app updates, fine, they have to find a way to recuperate those costs. But the cost of the download of the app doesn’t change based on how much content I buy that never goes anywhere near Apple’s infrastructure!
I am not sure if this is Computeforloot’s point but although I agree (for the most part) with Andy and Christina, I tend to tune them out when they spend a significant amount of the show rehashing their opinions on App Store policies. I am fine with keeping the issue top of mind but the time spent going over and over the same points week after week, is just a bit much for me.
If you went to Target and then to Walmart (American centric I know, but think of two of your own big retailers) and Walmart wanted to charge me 30% of my Target spending because I dared do business with Walmart, how would that go over with you? It’s not exactly the same thing that Apple is up to, but it’s pretty close to it.
The reason why it keeps coming up in the show is because it’s still in the courts because Apple got used to its cut of other people’s businesses and it is unwilling to give it up without a decades long fight. The only losers are Apple’s customers and the only solution is to vote with your wallet. Do NOT buy anything from the Apple store, and then they can’t take a cut of nothing.
Last week at Costco for the 2nd time in my life I bought a pack of those yellow micro fibre towels in the car section. They’re the best for cleaning screens and everything
That was EXACTLY my point!! It’s just a bunch of time flogging the same old issue, so just give it a rest! I don’t necessarily disagree with the general sentiment, but let it go after the first 30 seconds
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It’s just a bunch of time flogging the same old issue, so just give it a rest! I don’t necessarily disagree with the general sentiment, but let it go after the first 30 seconds