Comment by darkwizard42
2 years ago
60% of Americans CHOOSE to own a phone that has those features...
I think that is the issue. Android offers (nearly) all of the same functionality and yet people still choose iPhone.
Abusing your ecosystem is one thing (ex. defaulting to Apple Maps for location links, only allowing Safari as default browser), but not allowing 3P app stores seems perfectly within a company's rights.
Amazon isn't forced to list your product and Apple shouldn't be forced to give you access to it's hardware/software users.
>Abusing your ecosystem is one thing (ex. defaulting to Apple Maps for location links, only allowing Safari as default browser), but not allowing 3P app stores seems perfectly within a company's rights.
Is taxing every purchase on your platform for 30% not abusing your ecosystem?
>I think that is the issue. Android offers (nearly) all of the same functionality and yet people still choose iPhone.
iMessage is a non zero cause of this, and looking at the percentage of teens with iPhones, 85+%, likely a colossal cause. Which directly falls into Apple abusing their ecosystem.
That isn't a tax. It is a cost. In the same way you probably don't look at the overhead a clothing store puts on every pair of jeans you buy. You don't have to buy those jeans from that store, but you should realize that every store has a "tax" on clothes they carry.
Apple isn't abusing its ecosystem if users prefer it. I don't follow this logic on your second point.
It is absolutely a tax. The "cost" you pay upfront, the hundred dollar annual membership cost. Though even that could be considered a tax and not a "cost", because without it you can't even write software and deploy it on your own devices.