Economy Epic and Apple Lawsuit

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WomenRfromVenus

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So essentially Apple is running a Monopoly. Any app within the app store, agrees to forfeit 30% of in-app profits to Apple.
Also there's no way to get your apps onto Iphones outside of the app store.

Fortnite defied Apple's TOS and challenged them. They told their Fortnite users that doing direct purchases through Fortnite itself, would earn them a discount.

Apple retaliated by removing Fortnite from the app store. Hence, the law battle begins.

Now either party can be viewed as the villain here. Yes, Epic did defy TOS they agreed to.
But for the small app creators this battle could make the difference to whether their content ever suceeds or not.
Businesses are already being taxed then having to forfeit 30% of profits to Apple.
Yet a creator would be crazy NOT to want their app in the store?
Lose/lose situation

Despite any bias opinions someone would have to either company.
Couldn't we all agree that less burden on new creators, is a good thing?
 
Yea it's one of those weird situations. Fortnite is worth couple Billion. They ain't hurting for money.
They did break TOS

And someone once said: a slice of a watermelon is still more than a whole grape

Some profit is better than NO profit. Especially when being hosted by someone.

But to new creators, having Apple control the market like this feels really unfair.
Then when you see Apple making a profit like this=
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It's mind blowing
 
Its not just Apple.

Amazon takes 45-55% of the e-book's sale price.
A $5 sale price gets me about $2.50 (less tax x 2) Amazon is US based, I pay tax there. I'm Australian, I pay tax here.

30% sounds attractive.

Ls x
 
But while Bezos and Musk have fortunes worth 300 Billion

30 Million Americans recently reported not having enough food to eat

It's socially gross
 
LOL people support capitalism, believing it gives everyone the chance of becoming a self-made millionaire or billionaire
The point isnt about being rich. It's about creating a monopoly. Or living in excess and being gluttonous

Ever watch the documentary of David Siegel? It was quite amusing really.
At the beginning of the doco he was in the process of building a 50 Million dollar home. When asked why? He smirked and said "Because I can"
Then the recession hit. He soon was caught on cam whining about utility bills and his wife shopping at Walmart for Christmas.

There's an amazing thing that happens with all of us humans. None of us take money to the grave.

Only assholes sit with money capable of bettering lives around them. Yet waste it on imported marble from Italy.

Bezos didn't take 42 Million and invest it into food banks in America to combat poverty.
Instead he invested 42 Million into building a stupid clock thats suppose to last 10,000 yrs
#ego
#desperateForHisLegacyToLiveOn
 
WomenRfromVenus said:
LOL people support capitalism, believing it gives everyone the chance of becoming a self-made millionaire or billionaire
The point isnt about being rich. It's about creating a monopoly. Or living in excess and being gluttonous

Ever watch the documentary of David Siegel? It was quite amusing really.
At the beginning of the doco he was in the process of building a 50 Million dollar home. When asked why? He smirked and said "Because I can"
Then the recession hit. He soon was caught on cam whining about utility bills and his wife shopping at Walmart for Christmas.

There's an amazing thing that happens with all of us humans. None of us take money to the grave.

Only assholes sit with money capable of bettering lives around them. Yet waste it on imported marble from Italy.

Bezos didn't take 42 Million and invest it into food banks in America to combat poverty.
Instead he invested 42 Million into building a stupid clock thats suppose to last 10,000 yrs
#ego
#desperateForHisLegacyToLiveOn
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#TheAmericanDream

amirite?
 
Stanthropical said:
#TheAmericanDream

amirite?
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And that once was the Babylonian dream, and the Persian dream, also the Grecian and Roman.
Those people, that wealth, that control no longer exists.
They all passed on, like grass of the field which fades away.

Everything in life is temporal

Not wise to become complacent and pretend hyperinflation hasn't become part of our World history. I believe there was a time when Germany used bank notes as wallpaper and fire kindling.
 
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