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Originally Posted by Pushka
You are suggesting that the commercial rent is therefore based on profit? Not in our country!
I love apple products but all they do is make available the kindle app. Updates are done through amazon. I think they are shooting themselves in the foot because people may consider buying the iPad as it has available, but does not host, the kindle app.
As I said before, does apple deserve a cut from anything you buy using your safari browser on your Ithing?
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actually, and I hate supporting that argument, but most malls and some shopping centers do expect a percentage of a retailers sales in addition to rent. The rational is the rent is to cover the property overhead and the percentage is a "use based" charge that lets retailers pay more if their customers represent a greater use of the facility. Yeah, I know I don't fully get it either, but at least that is also evenly enforced and stated up front.
I still wanna know what happens to the California State Sales Tax once Apple becomes agent for the transaction by claiming all sales/transactions take place in their "mall/marketplace" that is based in California. It means CA residents should be required to pay sales tax even if the product/service is from Amazon who is located in Washington state or Brazil for that matter. For that reason I don't see the CA State AG being all that willing to say this is anything they want to stop because of the potential to get back a large portion of the sales tax revenue lost to internet sales.