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Comment by orwin | Hacker News Reader

What? Do you know how this work? Apple won't pay the full fine (probably 1 to 5%) if they manage to wiggle an apology and permit ALL app editors to put a 'if you pay on our website, without Apple Pay, the cost would be X.YY'.

Spotify is just the company who complained and have enough lawyers to understand anticompetitive law, but any ruling on that will benefit all app editors.

And frankly, most Apple users will keep paying the 30% tax anyway, it's not enough to loose the convenience.

Forbiding truthful, legal speech on your platform is allowed, but not if preventing it is anti-business and anti-competition.

I thought people on a website called _hacker_ news would be supportive of a ruling allowing small app creators alternative payment system?

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"I thought people on a website called _hacker_ news would be supportive of a ruling allowing small app creators alternative payment system? "

This is also ycombinator, and thus hacker culture is an means to be exploited by investors who are looking to grow unicorns. Such investors won't tolerate any restrictions on their path to growth as it threatens their entire value proposition.

So, we arrive at the natural conclusion: hackernews is only partially aware of its own narrative dissonance. This is how topics like this one can have hackers rooting for underdogs that will never get a meaningful win out of Apple. While others cheer on Apple and defend its practices as they see themselves temporarily embarrassed founders of the next trillion dollar company and they can't have any roadblocks to that growth.

And then there are some unaffiliated with either hacker or founder culture and their opinions on this topic are naturally as varied as anyone else's.

Very well put.

There used to be a site posted here every so often that would take the best examples of this and the snark was so on-point. I donated to it but think eventually the creator moved on.

Every once in a while an old 4-chan thread will resurface that is another perfect mirror.

I personally almost never used to post as someone would have already said what I'd intended. Now I feel sometimes like the one who flew over the cuckoo's nest.

Am I the old man shouting at clouds, is the site demo skewing further, both? Neither? May as well ask how many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

Edit- comments aren't usually deleted here I wonder if an old-fashioned comment scrape would do, but how to collate and what would even be the separators?

> I donated to it but think eventually the creator moved on.

In the spirit of preserving one's sanity, retiring from reading HN is the greatest donation one can ask for. Godspeed, whoever that person is/was.

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