Epic Sues Apple and Google due to Fortnite getting pulled [2020-08-13]

I don't see their market share growing from here on out.

So Samsung will still be there and enough people will import Chinese phones.

They'll punch way above their market share weight in profits though.

As for as online services, you mean iCloud fees? I don't see that as that big. We'll see if this Apple One bundle has any traction but I don't see Apple Arcade or Apple News + or Apple TV + really becoming that big.

 

Fine, they can either be forced to divest Apple Music or give Spotify and Tidal better deals.

Music is not that big a part of their revenues.

How about Elon Musk saying a few years ago, he wanted to approach Apple about acquiring Tesla but Tim Cook wouldn't meet with him?

 

How do you know that Apple's music division doesn't have to pay to 30% to Apple's store/services? In every company I've worked at, from Govt org to private, divisions do pay each other for a number of services and fees. We didn't get our laptops, equipment, or even our overhead for free. It is called a budget and we had to fight for every scrap. Well, my bosses did, and I had the side duty of being the "purser" in two of those jobs.

This is partly done for good accounting practices. I have a guess as towards the other reason (w.r.t. anti trust act), but nothing substantive on it.

 

Your analogy does not equate.

Here is one that works:

It's the difference between a shopkeeper just taking their store inventory for personal use, vs using their salary/pay to purchase goods at their own store. One is legal, one is not. I have both experience and audits from California (also the IRS, but their focus was on something else), when it comes to this. Sure, many try to skirt the law (in CA, at least; according to my CPA), and there are people who own small companies that have "fleet" assets that are really personal use assets (need to pay at least 40% of cost, if that is the case - mostly ignored for computers, but is not ignored for something like a car. However, during an audit, that "little" oversight is scrutinized and tax collectors made whole, with penalties).

No amount of shuffling money between bank accounts will change that. Maybe it is different in the Netherlands, where Apple had (at one point) funneled all of their digital sales.

Also, my analogy is just that, an analogy.

 

Apple pelted with more and more complaints from third-party App Store devs • The Register
December 31, 2020

 

Which small businesses?

If the App Store fees are too much for small developers, they're free to make software for Google Play or any other computing device.

Just like if a Mercedes costs too much for my wallet, I can buy a Honda. I don't have some right to force Mercedes to sell their cars to me at a price I can afford.

 

The developers aren't buying a Mercedes or any product. A subtle distinction but an important one.

 

Some developers want Apple to lower the price to put their apps on the App Store.

They want lower prices.

If they can't afford to pay lower prices, they can't make the seller lower their price.

They have plenty of other options. They don't have some inherent right to sell on the App Store, just as I don't have some inherent right to products that I can't afford.