Being in the AppStore gives you access to a lot of people. I don’t feel it’s at all relevant whether you happen to also have other exposure elsewhere. Apple charges you for the exposure you get from them, period. If you don’t want to pay for it, because you’re so successful on other channels, just don’t. Don’t have an iOS app. But for years we’ve had people who want an iOS app but also want to complain about sharing what they make from it. They still make too much to be willing to pull their app, but they complain anyway: because who doesn’t want higher margins.

Don’t take an analogy literally. That’s bad faith.

And if you don’t think marriage is a stated intention to have a sexual relationship, then we simply disagree. But your opinion, much as I honor it, is your own innovation.

I think of it like housework. No one should be compelled by the law to do housework. But if one person in the house is doing no housework, the others have a real and justified complaint. It’s not legal grounds for eviction, but it should be a material point against them in any dispute mediation that takes place.

To translate that: if one party in a marriage is withholding sex, they don’t get to claim a full 50% right to all the assets in the marriage. I’m not saying zero, but…

Oh is there some case where Apple is creating the content inside the app??? Do tell.

We can safely assume that alternative app stores would have less effect on iOS than they have on Android, where Google desperately wants others to step in and develop their ecosystem. And they aren’t very significant on Android at all. I tried distributing my app on Samsung Galaxy in addition to GPlay and despite its preferential positioning with the world’s largest phone maker, I got peanuts for installs. Not even a rounding error. I literally took the app down. Oh and then Xiaomi got banned from the SDK and they stole my APK for their third party app store and began sending me bug reports about how it was “broken” there. Ah yes the power and glory of alternative app stores… Apple are wise not to dump this cesspit into their ecosystem, which people love because all they want is one decent, unified default that works well.

It’s logical but it probably scares away some customers. That’s why the “just eat it” option exists. iOS gives you access to an enormous market and payments are slick and easy. Creators may want $5 but if they can get 30% less from 500% more people, it’s still a good business for them. There’s no strict reason why they must obsess over taking 100% of the sticker price. There are a million examples of businesses who are willing to accept a discount for high volume business.

It reminds me of gas stations that only accept ATM cards and not credit cards, because they don’t want to lose the 3% that credit card companies take per transaction. They’re trying not to lose that 3%, but it will inconvenience some customers and lose them some business. That could easily be worse than 3%.

So yes Patreon could say “go find a laptop and enter your credit card number in our web page” but there are people who won’t do all that because they expect to be able to pay with one tap. And businesses are on the AppStore because that great payment experience makes it super easy for them to convert customers.

It’s just not as straightforward as saying “fuck you Apple, I’ll take my business elsewhere.”

This is THE way that Apple gets any revenue from the enormous and highly successful app platform and ecosystem they created. They say “go nuts, make money on our platform, but share some with us in exchange for our maintaining that platform.” This is reasonable. Apple is providing a service to Patreon, and access to their tremendous user base. That ain’t nothing.

I agree that subjecting creator donations to the 30% is about the shittiest use case for this and I wish they would make an exception. But your post about how Apple is doing absolutely nothing here is garbage.

I really think this move blows and I wish they would reverse this decision and make an exception.

However Tim Cook didn’t wake up one day and wonder how he could fuck creators. Apple takes a 30% cut of all app transactions. This is how they benefit from the enormous and highly successful app platform and ecosystem they created. It’s not pure evil to say “hey use this platform all you want but you must share some of what you make there with us.”

It does suck that they won’t let creators off the hook though. This is like taxing rips.

I suspect she complained it was dirty because it had visible spots but their server is now turning that into “she needs it polished.” As a diner you have no way to know if something is just water spots or leftover detergent or leftover dirt. And frankly the server doesn’t have a way to know that either. The only reasonable thing to do is get them a new set.

Some animal abuse.

(spit)

She asked for clean silverware? What a bitch.

There’s definitely a breed of douche bag out there whose entire justification is “well I can’t quite afford the Rivian…”

If the decline was expected, that had already affected the stock price. If you look ONLY at what happens on the day that expectation is finally official, in writing, then yes it’s counterintuitive. But it makes perfect sense that if a huge decline was already built into the price, then that price would rise a little when it’s found out that the decline wasn’t as bad as expected.

Another way of saying it is that shares had already gone down because this was expected. When it wasn’t quite as bad as expected, they got a little bump back.

I know Russia has a proud tradition of marching its forces into the meat grinder en masse but fuck.

Thanks for noting this. People get all gleeful without knowing how connected everything is. The other thing I like to remind them is that fatcat bankers aren’t the only ones invested in the stock market. Regular people with 401ks or college savings set aside for their kid are exposed as well.

These numbers are just off Wikipedia but I wanted to refresh my sense of the proportions of America’s losses in the Vietnam War:

2,709,918 Americans served in Vietnam total with a peak of 543,400 at once, in April 1969.

Casualties:

58,281 dead, with 47,434 dead from combat (which means over 10k poor bastards lost their lives to illness and accidents - war is fucking ridiculous).

303,644 wounded (including 150,341 not requiring hospital care).

So if these numbers are accurate, Russia now has as many dead as America had wounded in all the Vietnam war. And remember, Russia is less than half the size of the US.

And they aren’t making any signs of quitting. It’s like they need to dispose of a whole lot of able bodied young men for some reason. How miserable.

It’s hard to fathom that Russians are just putting up with this.

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