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Comment by minimaxir | Hacker News Reader

Basically the opposite of Twitter's and Facebook's results.

Reporting says services revenue (App Store, Apple Care, Apple Pay, iTunes) is up 31%, despite heavy competition in those areas.

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We have a website and mobile apps. We are watching our revenue not so slowly go from credit card based purchases with a 2.4% transaction fee, to iTunes/Google Play purchases with a 30% transaction fee. This makes a HUGE difference in overhead for a business, and is money directly funneled straight to Google and Apple's "services" divisions.

I don't think this is going to change or level off anytime soon. Everyone wants their cut, now Visa gets it AND google/apple get it :(

Well, if you're in the Apple ecosystem, App Store is where you're going to get your apps, iTunes is where you're going to buy, versus stream music, and who else to trust to fix your iDevices than Apple themselves? So where's the competition?

For buying music, Amazon. It does a surprisingly good job on the Mac.

For streaming, Apple is still an also-ran, even on the iPhone, and even with 40 million subs.

There is no competition in those areas. If you have an iphone you can't use google play. You can't even side load an app.

is this not googles streaming music service on ios?

Google Play Music by Google, Inc.https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/google-play-music/id69179798...

unsure because i don’t use it, but it looks like it from the outside

Google Play apps = Android apps don't work on iOS is what GP comment is saying.

And Samsung.

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