Bloombergilla pitkä artikkeli Applesta. Otin lainauksia perään, mutta suosittelen lukemaan koko artikkelin.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-apple-rules-the-world/?srnd=homepage-europe
”When money crosses through this system, as it does constantly, Apple gets as much as 30%. Every time you wave your iPhone or Apple Watch at a credit reader in the real world, Apple gets a small cut of those transactions, too.”
”For companies of a certain size, there’s no real way to get out of paying what’s become known as the “Apple tax.” That’s partly because Apple customers are loyal, but it’s also because there’s really only one other smartphone app store, on Google’s Android platform, and it imposes similar fees and restrictions. And even Google pays Apple, turning over a cut of the ad revenue it generates on the iPhone as part of a deal that kept Google as the default search provider on Apple’s mobile web browser. The payments have amounted to $20 billion per year.”
”Regulators, on the other hand, have some questions. In March the US Department of Justice filed a sweeping antitrust complaint accusing Apple of anticompetitive practices that have essentially locked consumers and partners into its ecosystem, extracting ever larger sums from both groups.”
”How did businesses that were once widely seen as counterweights to corporate dominance find themselves in positions of otherworldly power and influence?”
”In the decade that followed, a pattern emerged. Apple would sign a long-term deal with the supplier of a key component while working, in secret, to design an in-house replacement that would eventually render that supplier irrelevant.”
”Epic and other developers should be allowed to link to their own payment systems on the web and thus get around some of Apple’s fees. But when Apple later added this functionality, it also introduced new rules and fees that made the external purchase option pointless. Any developer adopting this new system would have to agree to share its website transaction records with Apple, submit to audits and pay a 27% commission on any payments that happened outside the iPhone”
”In mobile messaging, non-Apple text messages are displayed in green bubbles, whereas those sent through its own hardware show up in blue, creating a social stigma for non-iPhone users.”
”The government is considering asking a judge to break up the search giant and could do the same to Apple if it prevails.”