What? This is a weird statement. iPhone is 100% a product. There are many alternatives.
> Imagine if Tesla charged Starbucks money to drive you to coffee. Because that's exactly what Apple has been doing for the last decade.
This is not the current scenario. Using your example, it would be like if Tesla owned a building, a coffee shipping company, and coffee making equipment and Starbucks sold coffee using Tesla resources. In this example, it would be expected for Tesla to charge Starbucks a premium for this full service coffee company being white labeled by Starbucks.
>Apple is taxing the internet, basically.
No. Apple is charging a fee to list products for sale on their store. Similar to every other store in existence.
What? This is a weird statement. iPhone is 100% a product. There are many alternatives.
> Imagine if Tesla charged Starbucks money to drive you to coffee. Because that's exactly what Apple has been doing for the last decade.
This is not the current scenario. Using your example, it would be like if Tesla owned a building, a coffee shipping company, and coffee making equipment and Starbucks sold coffee using Tesla resources. In this example, it would be expected for Tesla to charge Starbucks a premium for this full service coffee company being white labeled by Starbucks.
>Apple is taxing the internet, basically.
No. Apple is charging a fee to list products for sale on their store. Similar to every other store in existence.