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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
This has nothing to do with capitalism, which refers to an economic system. This discussion has to do with greed and monopoly.
Greed being not at all related to capitalism.
Here is a simple way to remember the distinctions. Business is the process of finding a mutually agreeable deal between several parties over goods, services and/or money. Charity is making a better deal for someone else at the expense of yourself. Greed is making a better deal for yourself at the expense of someone else. This often involves lieing, cheating and/or trapping that someone else.
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In what way is Apple wanting to get paid for selling apps through its app store "greed?" Answer: it isn't. They want a mutually agreeable deal over goods and services. That's
business.
The fact that newspapers: (1) want to charge their customers for their products; but (2) don't want to pay Apple for its services; does look a lot like
greed, but not on the part of Apple.
Is your worldview seriously one in which Apple is required to offer publishers free apps on its platform, even when those publishers are essentially "cheating" Apple by collecting money for the app outside the app store?