I understand people who dislike the Apple walled garden and want no part of it. Do you think I begrudge the 30% I paid, any more than I begrudge the rent I pay for this house? You know how much I would have made without the app store? Zero. What, am I supposed to feel entitled to use the house for free?Ī bunch of years ago I made several hundred thousand dollars from the App Store. Like, yes, the reason my landlord bought this house for a lot of capital up front was that they believed it would be profitable rent it for much smaller amounts for a long time. You don’t think Apple takes 30% of that, do you?īesides, it’s so funny when people use “rent seeking” as a pejorative. I’ve probably spent $20k on Amazon using my iPhone this year alone. 30% of revenue from sales of digital goods after the first $1m (15% before). > 30% of all revenue that passes through an iPhoneĪ bit of hyperbole there. : I'm no hardliner here: contrary to many on HN I actually see value in some ads and think I have sometimes made better purchases/been reminded to do things I wanted to do anyway. Oh, and when it wasn't ads for scammy-looking dating sites it was pay-to-win games, and based on the ads you could be forgiven for thinking they were made by the same folks. Or they just god more money from scammy-looking dating sites than from anyone else. Don't know what I did wrong but it seems there was a fluke with my account. It was almost always scammy-looking dating sites. I am an iPhone user since three years ago but if at some point I get a better deal elsewhere, I'm off.Īnd with Apple I pay extra for premium, and there is only so many ads one can shove in before the premium feel is gone.Īs for the targeted ads, I share your feeling that the targeting is badly over hyped, except you are lucky compared to me:Īds for products I bought 3 days ago would be wildly relevant compared to most of the ads I can remember from Google. I don't like the idea that we discuss this as a law of nature. Being contrarian and using mis-informed tropes is not a good way of having a rational discussion. > It's good to be passionate, but blind devotion is dangerous,Īfter starting a post like this, it is disappointing that you fell in the trap you warned the OP about. Now that’s a real point, which deserves more than being buried after a paragraph of half-truths (and I almost entirely agree, FWIW). > I'm advocating for an open and interoperable ecosystem of operating systems, services and applications, which is the only way to ensure sustainable customer freedom. This sounds truthy, but is there any evidence of this? Apple is famously the company that tells rent seekers after more ROI above all to fuck off (both Jobs and Cook). > increased pressure to sustained growth from shareholders I wish they did not, because it made the store even more of an unusable mess, but it really is not even in the same league as Google and Facebooks, systematic surveillance. We know that they put ads in the App Store, that’s it. > we already know by now Apple is positioning itself to become a major player in the advertising space Seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river. They're giving you 2TB+ of space and you can encrypt it to the point that you'll lose your data and they don't care - they don't want to mine your data, they don't want to know what you store on there, the don't care to scan your pictures with AI 20 different ways, they don't want to monetize it, etc, etc., just pay them money for their service and transactionally they give you only thing that you want in return - reliable, secure, private service. This announcement is huge in multiple ways:ġ) they just ate every other 3rd party "secure" backup services lunch just like they did to the Hi-Res music industry.Ģ) details of what they backup securely, besides photos (which is top priority for me): iCloud Drive: Includes Pages, Keynote, and Numbers documents, PDFs, Safari downloads, or any other files manually or automatically saved to iCloud Drive.ģ) BUT, perhaps the BIGGEST news here is that Apple is making a backup statement to what they've been saying for years and what they've recently gotten negative attention on: They don't want your data.
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