AAPL and Apple

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

Cheapo way to hype TWTR and his (EM) impending initiatives (essentially what @jil has thought EM would use TWTR to shape the narrative to his favor). Or Apple Car :moneybag:is very near to being launched.

Conspiracy in the wild:
Apple is pressurized by @manch democrats to punish EM as he moves towards Trump.

Nah, no conspiracy. Both Tim and Elon are evil. People are just glad they are going at each otherā€™s throat.

:popcorn:

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Unless EM launches a phone with C++ code with equal quality of AAPL behind it, he is not going to win over iphone. Microsoft tried; Google tried, they grab a share, but not dent on iphone !

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Amazon tried
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EM :-1: Diverting TWTR employees and users from current woes? By declaring war on an innocent company?

EM preparing to launch a satellite phone, first app TWTR?

:+1:

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Itā€™s all fun and games until regulators knock on Tim Appleā€™s door.

Even in Microsoftā€™s monopoly heydays, Bill Gates never dared to ask for 30% of every software sales on Windows. Sooner or later the regulatory axe will fall on Appleā€™s rent-seeking head.

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What Apple is doing is 100x more offensive and monopolistic than what Microsoft ever did.

  1. Microsoft never took cut directly from other software suppliers as opposed to Apple insisting on taking 30% as if itā€™s their birthright to exploit every software supplier. Itā€™s shocking what they are getting away with.
  2. Microsoft got dinged by government just for bundling itā€™s own software with Windows which is actually not even an offense compared to what Apple does, which bundles so many freebies with macOS and iOS too. Browser, Video editing, Music, Maps, Health, Photos, Weather, TV, Mail, Pay, FaceTime, long list. Microsoft got vilified just for bundling browser.

Itā€™s quite amazing that justice department has been giving clean chit to Apple so far when they were vilifying Microsoft for 100x milder offense.

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EM is misleading readersā€¦

One-time purchases

For one-time purchases Apple charges a 30% fee.

For developers with revenue less than $1 million through the ā€ŒApp Storeā€Œ on an annual basis, fee is reduced to 15 percent through the Small Business Developer Program.

Subscription

In the first year of a subscription, Apple takes a 30% cut of your revenue, so you receive 70% of the subscription price at each billing cycle, monthly or annual, minus applicable taxes.

After a year of service, your revenue share increases to 85% of the subscription price, minus applicable taxes, so Apple takes 15% of your revenue.

Can avoid paying any fees subscription + one-time purchase

Developer apps can re-direct purchasers and subscribers to go outside of App Store to purchase + subscribe e.g. NFLX did that and didnā€™t pay Apple a single cent for subscription outside App Store

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Microsoft charged $0 on Windows.

Again Microsoft charges $0.

How much does Microsoft charge on windows?

Zero and zero.

Refer to my answer to @REInv. You try to mislead, when called out, divert to other issues. Cā€™monā€¦ canā€™t trust what you said :wink:

Started as 30%. Reduced to zero last year.

AFAIK, MSFT can also do. You are quoting the past.

Quoting past because @manch was comparing evil Apple to evil Microsoft of the past. My point is that Apple today is 100x more evil than Microsoft of the past. But Apple doesnā€™t have to face even 1% of the heat Microsoft faced in the past. This is quite shocking and sickening.

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Values had changed.

Say doing activity A is not acceptable 20 years ago.
Today, doing activity A is acceptable. In fact, doing A B C is also acceptable.
So I donā€™t think comparing then and now is valid.

Another example, few centuries ago, in many nations and culture, women cover almost all parts of their body and donā€™t even talk to men alone.
Today, women wear lingerie-style blouses and have pre-marital consensus sex freely.

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30 years of mobile phones in 2 minutes!

https://twitter.com/pascal_bornet/status/1534387243468611584

Apple is evil.

@manch doesnā€™t respect sovereignty :-1:



GK is listed in early Jul 2021, since then it underperforms AAPL and S&P.