Comment by quan | Hacker News Reader

Comment by quan | Hacker News Reader

I agree with all the points except for the one that believes it's within Apple right to do whatever they want because it's their hardware and platform. Let's forget that the hardware really belongs to the iPhone/iPad owners for a moment, but if it's defensible because it's their platform then it's more reasonable for Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast to take a cut from all sales and profits happened via their network. It's their platforms, which took them decades to build. And surely there's value added when they offer preferentially faster speed and more secured transaction to whichever companies agree to pay them. It would be hilarious if an ISP starts demanding 30% cut from every sale Apple makes that originates from their network.

Ah,

And then every ISP will demand a cut of every sale that happens on the Internet part of their network. Finally, the telecos implement some good natural language processing and demand a cut of every sale you negotiate over their voice network...

...Their network, their rules...

... that will work well till the Oxygen cartel starts making demands....

  > And then every ISP will demand a cut of every sale that
  > happens on the Internet part of their network.

And then Apple will start collecting monthly fee just because you have iDevice.

Indeed. Whatever happened to "With the internet, we can cut out the middlemen"? Suddenly, every corporation wants to set up tollboothes along the way and starts demanding their cut.

If this continues, in small steps, we'll be back at the old way, in which the content creator gets only a minimal share of the pie, and it's the distributors that get rich.

I'm all for an open, "flat", neutral infrastructure, so there is no way I'll be buying any Apple products.

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