Apple slaves users discussing privacy problems and spywares from Google… rofl
The children! Won’t someone please stop molesting the children!
Welcome to the US medical system.
It’s not an ethical practice, but the alternative is not letting these companies raise the price, and then eating the margin for Apple customers. Apple isn’t raising the price themselves, they’re just taking an unreasonable margin and the companies are choosing to raise the price. We shouldn’t allow this, but we shouldn’t allow it for credit card companies, other payment apps or bank transfers either. Payment processing is honestly a utility service, we just didn’t really think about the costs when it was all cash.
(Note that this is not a defence, 30 - 40% is fucking larceny. But the prices raise because noone wants to take the hit, and customers suffer. The problem isn’t Apple, it’s the culture and proliferation of companies, and the utter inability of people to push back. Apple is probably worth that insane markup to companies and those companies know that but who pays? We all do.)
The problem isn’t Apple, it’s the culture and proliferation of companies
No, the problem is Apple, they wrote the rule demanding 30% and then they enforced the(ir) rule. The culture didn’t allow this, nobody has a choice, users never agreed to any of this. Most developers don’t have the option to absorb the cost, they don’t typically have 30% profit margins themselves lmfao!
The DOJ is suing VISA for their 1% commission, too. Apple’s antitrust fight with them starts next year!
There is no reason why Apple should take a cut just because their devices are used. Microsoft, Google and Intel don’t take a cut from anything I buy using a computer with Chrome browser.