[HN Gopher] Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's...
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       Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership
       programs
        
       Author : mdoms
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2022-01-12 22:33 UTC (26 minutes ago)
        
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       | nabla9 wrote:
       | Many don't know this, but monopoly is not illegal in the US.
       | 
       | Misusing monopoly power is.
        
         | r00fus wrote:
         | Please explain to me how Apple is a monopoly.
        
       | mindwok wrote:
       | I feel like these marketplaces could _maybe_ justify 30% on the
       | purchase of an app up front, where there are clear benefits to
       | the exposure and platform offered by them. But ongoing revenue is
       | really attributable to the app itself and feels to me much harder
       | to justify.
       | 
       | At this point I'd be happy if Apple just let me install apps
       | outside their ecosystem, then they could at least defend
       | themselves by saying if the developers aren't happy with the
       | terms of the App Store they can offer alternative methods.
        
       | joebob42 wrote:
       | I still don't think they deserve the 30%, but it's interesting
       | that there doesn't seem to be any concern in that direction
       | mentioned here. They mention in passing that the 30% may be a
       | concern for partners but they seem basically unfased by it and
       | don't mentioned that it might not be reasonable.
        
       | yua_mikami wrote:
       | This is good because the more large companies that Apple pisses
       | off, the sooner the App Store garden walls will come down.
        
       | Kyragem wrote:
        
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