Hello,
Why are big tech companies evil? This is not my question and not my words, but it is a general question posed in several articles and research, as books such as a book have been published about it
And other books and theses that discuss the hypothesis that the major technical companies and we mean here (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon) and other major companies in Silicon Valley.
Damaged biscamp
These days you may have heard about the new E-mail service launched by the company BESCAMP HEY mail, and all the excitement that the company made when the founders of the company directly attacked Apple's policies regarding collecting fees from companies that want to offer their services on the Apple App Store, and Apple gets a rate of 30 % Of profits. This kills growth in small companies, according to Biscambe
For more you can follow the accounts of the company's founders on Twitter, you will find the story renewed every day @jasonfried or @dhh
Support in the media came through Microsoft, which criticized Apple's monopoly. (Yes, Microsoft criticizes the monopoly). It might sound funny. But Microsoft's explanation is provided. It came as an expression of perhaps its indignation and delay in this sector (the mobile sector), then its failure to bring developers to Windows Phone services, and then finally its exit from this market.
This is the economy, dear
There are two teams in this war, a team that stands with Biscambe, either because he is the owner of a startup and has suffered from Apple's policies and suffered a lot from it, or because he is a developer and finds that the company limits creativity, or perhaps because he hates Apple because it is an Android phone user :)
But let's talk about the economy a little bit, today we are talking about an economy that supports market freedom, and Apple works in a market that guarantees it freedom to impose a percentage on its services because in return it exacerbates services for companies (Apple has a billion enabled device, when you put your paid service on its devices you implicitly provide Paid services to a billion devices), this service gives Apple the right to deduct a percentage of the profit because it comes within (marketing to you, or a percentage of sales, or working to help you sell more).
Of the companies that have been affected by this ratio, Teleflex has forced it to develop its own payment platform on its site in order to recover a portion of its profits lost due to Apple's policies.
Why don't the rest of the companies act like Netflix?
Not all startups are as popular as Netflix, which has the reputation and the global presence for driving their own payment policies. But other small companies need to invest huge amounts in marketing to their payment services. Whereas, if I had gone to Apple, solutions would be found ready and working efficiently in all countries of the world, and they were linked with international banks everywhere. (I am surrounded by a monopoly, how can I breathe)?
Well, it could be more than a point of view. But most likely this we will enter into a cycle of discussion about the disadvantages and benefits of monopoly ... What do you think of this issue .. I mean the issue of monopoly of major companies for any kind of services?