Comment by ApolloFortyNine
2 years ago
>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.