Notices by amonduin (amonduin@mastodon.social)

@jeffowski @georgetakei Yeah, I'm not American so I don't really care about the "own the libs" part of things. I care about the fact that the president of the largest army in the world is threatening to start WW3 and is working to ensure no one objects to his doing so by using state terror on his own citizens.
ICE is murdering Americans and he is still in power. If you think whatever is in the Epstein files will somehow topple him you're delusional.

@jeffowski @georgetakei It is extremely dangerous to build up your hopes that the Epstein files will somehow save you. What if all thats in them is proof Trump was a close friend? Then what will you pin your hopes on? Do you just give up and say, oh well, guess the fascist gets to take over?
Everything he is doing outside of hiding the files is far, far worse. Forget about the Epstein files and focus on his undermining of the constitution, threatening to start WW3, and murdering US citizens.

@noodlemaz @Huntn00 @PatrickOBeirne @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Sure they care, but why do you people keep bringing this up every single time Trump starts talking about invading another country as if it is relevant. I am extremely doubtful that anyone in the US administration is going to face justice for the files regardless of whether or not they are released. The files being released is also unlikely to be change trumps territorial and imperial ambitions.

@darnell @pawel @gruber @daringfireball So? Nothing I’ve said suggests that the App Store doesn’t cost money or that Apple shouldn’t find a way to recoup that cost.

My point is that the only way Apple starts losing money in the EU is if the Executive team continues to stick their heads in the sand to try and save the current scale of App Store profits. The company would still probably make money from the App Store just not a 70% profit margin.

@darnell @pawel @gruber @daringfireball Apps that aren't in the App Store don't cost them that money. Additionally, if Apple needs to charge Apps to be in the App Store (a hosting fee say) they should do that. In none of the marketing around the CTF or their rules around IAP have they (recently) talked about App Store costs. They used to, but then the App Store turned into a profit centre and trying to justify the profits simply by claiming its a fee to run the store got harder to do

@darnell @pawel @gruber @daringfireball

They might face massive fines (that might make them want to leave) if they try to play games with the law. The laws wouldn't be the problem, Apple's leadership being unwilling to obey local laws is the problem.

What we actually have is a case of Apple's leadership being willing to throw away all EU profit to protect a small portion of EU profit, which should rightly result in shareholder revolt.

That isn't smart management, that's just ego.

@darnell @pawel @gruber @daringfireball
The main problem I see is that Gruber et al. haven't really demonstrated how opening up the platform is actually going to lead to Apple losing money. The App Store doesn't make up the majority of their profits so how does losing it lead to losses?