Independence Day: How developer and customer revolt will de-throne Apple

zd net ^ | 3 July 2016 | Jason Perlow

[DUMBGRUNT]

Taxes, overall, were the proximate cause. But there were certainly other reasons why we declared independence from England...And boy, oh the taxes. It's one thing to charge a 30 percent cut on apps, but a 30 percent tax imposed on everything you sell, including subscriptions and any ongoing revenue is preposterous....

It's practically North Korean in its ham-fistedness. Kim Jong-Il would congratulate Apple on its mastery of authoritarianism.

[DUMBGRUNT]

A pig can get fat; but hogs get slaughtered!

Apple has been good to me, not holding any AAPL at this time.

[vladimir998]

Apple. It’s a cult.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yup, it’s like Scientology. Same with Facebook and Google too.

[DUMBGRUNT]

They do have many over the top devotees.
That said, they make very good hardware, overpriced, but very good.

Not too many Windows devotees???

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ditto.
My iMac was purchaed in 2011.
Still clicking...

[Nifster]

Oh sure....but Windows is crap

[Talisker]

Oh sure....but Windows is crap

Yep, and Apple's a cult, and Google is the freaking Death Star, and Linux is the Rebel Alliance.

[publius911]

My iMac was purchaed in 2011. Still clicking...

Wow!
A whole 5 years!

...ever heard of Windows Xp...?

[Fungi]

I have two Dells, one running Windows 98SE, one running Vista. Both work fine, disk space is limited.

[DUMBGRUNT]

and Linux is the Rebel Alliance.

OH NO!
I'm typing this on a linux workstation, is that safe?

Princess Leia is like a 150 years old or something???

The lot of them are probably passed out on the floor of the Mos Eisley Cantina !!!

[Nifster]

Well there you have it

[Flick Lives]

Wow!
A whole 5 years!

...ever heard of Windows Xp...?

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I’ve got a 2010 iMac, but it has been upgraded to the latest OS X version without any issue. In fact it’s been thru about 4 upgrades of the OS over its lifetime without incident.

[exDemMom]

My poor little iPad is barely capable of doing anything any more. It’s not even 5 years old.

This computer is about the same age, and doing fine.

[b4me]

kept my original macbook 2008 it’s a little slow at times but works fine, except the cd/dvd just started having a problem.

[ctdonath2]

Retailers regularly take a 30-50% cut of sales. Why? They’re providing the venue, catalog advertising, service, sales, security, and other overhead needed to connect customer to manufacturer. Ditto Apple.

I’m an app developer, making a good living on free apps. Apple gets $0.
Short of absolute blockbusters, if you’re complaining about Apple getting a 30% cut, you’re probably missing the ways to real money.

[CurlyDave]

Retailers regularly take a 30-50% cut of sales...

A retail markup is different from this.

A much better analogy is that I once had a girlfriend who had a store in a shopping mall. The mall started by estimating her total sales and set basic rent at 30% of that. It was a requirement that she report sales to the mall every week, including the reports that the cash register generated. If her sales were higher than the estimate, she had to pay "percentage rent" of 30% of the overage. If sales were less than the estimate, there was no rent reduction.

Apple is driving a lot of traffic to the developer. Enough to make the 30% reasonable, and the terms are changing. After a year it reduces to 15% now.

[minnesota_bound]

#15 How much can you make on free?
How do you make money?

[Swordmaker]

This is an ignorant article making a claim about a problem using factoids that are completely out of date, such as this quotation from the article:

"It's one thing to charge a 30 percent cut on apps, but a 30 percent tax imposed on everything you sell, including subscriptions and any ongoing revenue is preposterous."

Apple now charges a 15% rate on all ongoing subscription renewals after the first year. . . and Google is charging a flat 15% rate for all subscriptions. These authors did not bother to do even a basic modicum of research before posting their FUD article to promote Spotify's disingenuous claims. Spotify's app was rejected because it offered a discount for renewing subscriptions outside of the app on Spotify's website in violation of their signed agreement with Apple that Apple customers will receive the same subscription rates in apps as they will elsewhere! — PING!

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[Swordmaker]

...ever heard of Windows Xp...?

Uh, that's an operating system, not hardware. How many Windows PCs from 2001 or even 2008 are still operating and have the resale value of Macs?

[dayglored]

Ignorance never stopped a tech writer whore before, no reason to start being accurate now, eh?