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Text your boss using iMessage? Then Apple is entitled to 30% of your paycheck, too.

or at least own 30% of the text message content.

People will just work around that by choosing a different pocket, screwing Apple out of their fair cut.

Recently there was discussion[0] about Apple devices dominance amongst teenagers ~85% mobile devices in US. Apple is heading towards market domination in a couple of years - in US first but in some European countries trend seems to be catching as well.

With company's total control over locked down hardware, software, software delivery and browser (and other, fresh endeavors like identity management aka AppleId, payments etc) it will be very interesting time and quite a show to observe.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29851317

Does the electricity company take a cut from online payments too for allowing people to use their infrastructure.

Maybe they should... "We charge $50/month extra for the iphone charging service. If we detect an iPhone in your house, the charge will be automatically applied to your bill".