apple/google vs epic mobile warfare where is nikkom when you need him

[kirby007]

Nautilus said:

DonFerrari said:

When you buy a car the car manufacturers don`t keep getting money from the fuel stations. And they don`t lock you out to a single vendor. There are plenty of paid apps on both stores (sure not the top download) and the free to play games also you don`t need to pay nothing to keep playing forever, and those sales aren`t really fostered by Apple. They don`t actually do anything to help those games be downloaded or then in-app purchase to happen so really they aren`t entitled to a cut. They aren`t entitled to get a cut from every perspective.

But the car manufacturer don't have a constant cost with maintaining a car the costumer paid for 1,2,3 years ago. If your car breaks down, (usually) you pay from your own pocket.If someone runs over a person in the car you sold to them, the car manufacturer is not responsible. If someone turns that into a bomb, the car manufacturer is not responsible, etc.

For a platform holder, you are liable to everything that goes into your platform. If someone posts something malicious, "It's Apple fault for not having a better moderation for such things!". If porn is posted where it wasn't supposed to, the headline on any paper will be " Explicit Porn was seen in Apple store, with nothing been done for hours". Not only that but you pay a team of a hundred+ engineers to keep updating and improving, not to mention the marketing you have to do to promote said platform, like I said before. And engineers are expensive, especially good ones.

Again, there is a discussion to be had if the 30% cut is fair or not, but saying that they are not entitled to a cut, when the IOS is not only something they own, but that they fostered and devloped and spent hundreds of millions of dollars into building what it is today? Honestly, the kind of person that says stuff like these are the ones that have never been owned a bussiness, and dosen't know how hard you need to work to make it work aand how hard it is to make it work.

If you are unhappy about it, just go to other platforms. There are alot of platforms that dosen't have a cut and are successful enough(Android, PC in general).

go to another platform is such a weak excuse, missing out on 25-50% of the market is a big deal