Heck, even iPhone battery was upgradeable while he was still in charge.
Eh, wot? iPhone battery has never been easily replaced. Yeah, you could do it, but it still involved tiny screws and fiddly bits; you’re not popping a new one in while waiting at a stoplight.
But I do miss the days of throwing some cheap RAM at a MacBook.
I'm sure my nephew got it from someone else, but recently told me, "if you don't look back at yourself five years ago and cringe about something, you're not making progress."
Devil's advocate: what is the typical markup at retail stores?
Who cares? We're not selling boxed software. Let me give you a better question: how much would it cost to host a web site and give a payment processor their cut? I can answer that, because I've done it for Pocket PC/WinMobile apps: 7% to FastSpring, or whoever, for payment processing and then web site hosting for, what, a few hundred a year?
30% is friggin' ridiculous. Discovery is non-existent on Apple's App Store, so we are paying for...what? Overpriced payment processing, and some minimal online storage? I don't give a shit that Apple provided a "platform", as Microsoft isn't charging for me to have the privilege of dropping a binary on a Windows box. And for Apple to then turn around and demand a cut every time money changes hands, whether Apple had anything to do with it or not, is just icing on that anti-competitive cake.
The point is it's a frame of reference. The claim is that 30% is ridiculous. Why? Based on other comments in the discussion, it sounds in the same ballpark to other online stores, ones without Apple's anticompetitive pressure.
If that's the case, it sounds like a very lucrative market, so competition should bring that number down if it's so profitable.
Again, this is a separate question from Apple's anticompetitive behavior, it's solely about whether a 30% cut is itself reasonable or outrageous.
I thought of a frame of reference: ebay. All told, it looks like I pay 15% to ebay when selling something. So Apple charges 2x as much (I would say the value provided is comparable)
That logic tells me you didn’t read the comment you’re replying to. I mean, I’m sure you read it, but how you walked away thinking your reply was apropos mystifies me.
Because if you look at the entire history of presidents with the notable exception of Barack Obama, every president has been a geriatric white dude.
That’s not even true within my lifetime, let alone historically. People freaked the fuck out because Reagan was going to be all of 70 when he took office in 1982. That’s nothing compared to the fossils that they’re propping up in front of a microphone these days. 70 year olds in Congress these days are nicknamed “The Kid”.
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