Charging more for apple users
Elon is planning to charge more for users on the Apple ecosystem to offset app store costs. Why can’t every company do that to fight Apple’s monopoly? Amazon charges extra for Kindle books downloaded on iOS WhatsApp and Facebook marketplace are $0.99 apps on the App Store, but free on browser and Android, to offset lost ad revenue. Any idea what prevents these Companies from doing it? Is it a legal reason or just fear of losing customers?
another big brain moment from Elon. Charging someone more because of their chosen platform…yeah that’d work out well. Another stroll in Apple Park and he’ll change his tone and get in line. again.
Dude that's not even close to a new thing, what planet do you live at?
He is not the first one to do so.
I used a family member’s Android to buy a yearly subscription of Pocket for about a fourth of it’s cost for iOS.
Ah. But that experience will probably take you away from iOS to android in the long term. I was wondering why bigger companies don’t do it.
Personally, I don’t think so. I don’t use too many premium apps.
Isn't that against app store policies?
As long as you charge everyone equally on ios you’re probably still within guidelines.
If you guys read the news you’d know that google does the same. Is he going to tax android uses too?
Iphone users are on an average richer than an android user.
But that isn’t fair. I know folks who work super hard so they can get iPhones for their kids even when they can’t afford it themselves.