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(For comparison, it’s worth noting that Apple recently blocked WordPress from updating its app on iOS because it did not include an option for in-app purchases—something that it quickly reversed.)

There’s millions of games to choose from. No significant number of people are giving up a phone to play a game; they can simply play another game.

People that tint their lights don’t care about the reflectors or even know that they are there and serve a purpose. They tint their lights under the assumption that the active lighting is still bright enough to be somewhat seen.

They submitted their update, it got approved, then they changed it after the fact to include the direct payment. It was intentional subterfuge

Is everyone that writes for this site shorting Apple stock?

Just about every platform has a 30% cut. Where’s the Epic Game Store on XBox? Nintendo Switch? PS4?

So many things wrong with this article.. First off, the “Apple Tax” is the extra money they charge on their computers. Your site (David Murphy) literally just posted about this 2-3 days ago. Steam, Google play, etc all charge 30% for thier store.. That is NOT the Apple tax.

Secondly, no mention of how wordpress did…

Right, but you’re just describing a duopoly instead of a monopoly.

Only instead of Disneyland being a place you go to once, it’s a place where, if you choose it over Universal, becomes the place where you buy all your groceries and utilities forever

I don’t know why people keep comparing this to retail

An analogy to help everyone understand what Epic actually did:

So let me get this straight:

You know they are desperate when they are citing yet to be released models as advantages.

This isn’t about the Taxi Regulations, when it comes to that the States/Counties/Cities should do everything in the law to make both Uber and Lyft adhere to the laws they are breaking.

The only ones to suffer from this will be those who relied on lyft for daily transport, why you ask? Because now the only option(if they don’t use Uber) will be the crappy local taxi service.

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That’s the thing though. Their business model was legal but it disrupted too many existing industries and those industries lobbied the politicians to change the law to make their business model untenable. I have friends and relatives who in this time of covid were utilizing the extra income they were making on the…

I like how these businesses are the big baddies until they go away — then they’re leaving people without income and ride share options.

Incredible sense of entitlement here from the author.