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Epic is arguing here that Apple is charging them 30% for payment processing. They're not, they're charging them for a return on the billions of dollars they spend developing the OS, developer APIs and tools that Epic builds on.
Most egregious is the fact that is is Epic's very business model! They provide a game engine, SDKs and tools to third parties and draw a % of the sales of those games. How would Epic like it if some of their customers stopped paying them? Their customers can make the same bad arguments: It's too expensive, and it's a monopoly because the switching costs are too high!
Sure, the difference it's the users that are captive on the Apple ecosystem rather than the developer, but it's pretty easy to argue that the users choose the platform because of it's quality, and a large part of that quality is driven by the massive investment Apple makes into the ecosystem, for which it deserves a fair share.
All that said, I really wish Apple would drop their cut to 15% or 20% which would do a lot relieve the bad taste in everyones mouth.
It reduces market forces that encourage optimal use of scarce resource. My neighbor in SF lives alone in his 3 bedroom apartment that he’s rented since 1990. If he paid market rate, all 3 bedrooms would be filled, 2 more people would be housed, and the overall housing demand would be proportionally cheaper.
It massively restricts mobility of tenants. Once you’re in on a “good deal” you can’t move. And reduced turnover creates all kinds of inefficiencies: people live farther from their jobs, don’t upgrade into nicer units over time (and thus free the cheaper/older units for those who are starting out).
It creates massive cost inequality for tenants and massive income inequality for landlords. As a tenant, one neighbor might be paying 50% or 100% or even 300% more than others with the same or similar unit, regardless of whether they can better afford it.
A property might generate 1/3rd the income of the building next door simply because the owner has tenants that have lived there for 25 years. Meanwhile costs of gardening, roofing, carpentry, plumbing and other labor have increased and thus one building is in disrepair. The building can’t be sold without the tenants, so the building is worth much less than the neighbors is due to random chance.
It places odd restrictions on lease terms, so that many go vacant unecessarily. Because of rent control, if I own a unit built before 1979 I literally can’t make a contract with a tenant to lease to them for a year or two. Any term lengths I put on a lease are meaningless, and the tenant has nearly unlimited rights to live in my house for as long as they want.
If I have plans to use a unit for something else, upgrade it, etc I will likely leave it unoccupied.
Airpods are awesome, and they'll only get better. A cord running to your pocket is seriously a thing of the past, and all these posts will age terribly. Just like the serial port ones, the floppy ones, the cd rom ones...
And for all this noise, what I can't for the life of my understand is why these people can't just use a god damn adapter. They make high quality DAC ones, too. Just leave it attached to your headphones. What's the damn problem? The rest of us get a better, thinner phone.
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Not sure about your window size problems with external monitors, I find that OS X handles this amazingly well
IDK, indeed $X/10 is ambitious but he does have a decent track record with this already. SpaceX is already $X/3 or $X/4 and is on the path to $X/10 with reusable rockets, and it's also more ambitious (rocket reuse, highest payload in the world by 2x, new capsule has powered rocket landing on any surface in the solar system).
In my mind he's earned some benefit of the doubt. Of course, there's still a ton to prove, and the idea sounds looney. You'd also have said that about SpaceX 10 years ago, though.
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Guidebook makes a mobile app that helps people find their way around complex venues and events. You may have used our app at a show like PyCon, PAX, UDC, etc. We're also now beginning to publish guides to places where there is a lot going on like Universities, museums, etc.
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Yeah, the "are you fucking kidding me?" comes from the fact that you did something awesome, i.e. something can't be done trivially by some far simpler means. So I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me :)
The only "are you fucking kidding me?" that this hack evokes is "you spent all that time and talent to do /that/?".
1) Doing something that can't be done by hand, OR 2) Replacing repetitive manual work, this saving time in the long run
IMO there's nothing "cool" about a hack that will only be used once and could be replaced by Mark (or anyone standing nearby) pre-typing the message and then posting the status to Facebook seconds after he pushes the Nasdaq button.
You could also argue that it might have been an opportunity for the engineers to learn something, but IMO you could think of more worthwhile hacks to learn from.