Vamanos

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[–] Vamanos 3 points 1 year ago

The way these conversations usually shake out is something like “how do we improve morale and do a nice thing?” And the topic of money almost never comes up.

[–] Vamanos 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed on all counts. The question is way too abstract to draw any meaningful conclusions from it. I don’t even know why they would bother posing the question or printing the results. Everything about the original is just meaningless.

[–] Vamanos 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Took a second to click that this was your company bonus. Wtf.

should we give them money? Nahhh. What do they like? Trucks. That’s it. They like trucks. And they have bad breath. I’ve got an idea that will only cost us a couple thousand.

[–] Vamanos 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy fuck another 3 paragraph essay. Maybe the part I fucking quoted

Trying again

forcing them to pay a extraordinarily more than what most of their competitors are paying.

You literally ignore every counterpoint and then inundate your responses with content that doesn’t apply. Try again.

More words != compelling argument or facts

[–] Vamanos 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So Apple is essentially singling out 15% of developers and forcing them to pay a extraordinarily more than what most of their competitors are paying.

But that’s not true. And your response to this in the other comment chain was three paragraphs on sms rates. Seems like you believe somehow Apple is unique in this regard.

[–] Vamanos 2 points 1 year ago

Ok? Agree? Not arguing against any of that.

[–] Vamanos 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But you know it’s just not Apple right? This is standard rates at this point. No one was arguing against your point - but there is an industry high rate at play here.

[–] Vamanos 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

This seems to be the standard that all store fronts use. With maybe an exception on epic who purposefully went lower than the industry norm to try and excite game publishers to their storefront.

Just from some cursory googling - google and Apple are right in line. 30% with some drops into the 15% mark after time has passed in case of subscription payments.

Edit: have not been following this story but it seems like kind of an uphill battle. We know what the argument will be - it’s x percent but you’re using our product and infrastructure and we have to invest people and resources to verifying apps getting published.

Feels like the law suits that involve “allowing multiple app stores” had a higher chance of succeeding (though I have no idea the status of those lawsuits so maybe that’s already off the table)

[–] Vamanos 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s an exceptionally rare thing — in life or in business — that you get a second chance to make another big impression," the chief tweeted. "Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate. Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square."

Yes yes. Indeed. I love referring to a company by a single letter. Think about all of the great SEO will come from this! Think about the great way this will unite us all!

[–] Vamanos 10 points 1 year ago

I grew up outside of Jackson MS. Like, wayyy outside. And yeah. It hits pretty close to home.

[–] Vamanos 70 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Relevant Bo Burnham song for those interested

https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0

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