Apple services and the App Store tax manton.org

@manton From a customer POV: I find it odd to see Apple hyping up Files app and the iPad as an alternative to the (traditionally) flexible Mac whilst also mantaining this, frankly, farcical approach to cloud storage. Between this and the cluster that is the MacBook product line, there are some serious questions to be answered over the next couple of years -- and, more importantly from a customer POV, some serious products to be released as a way to implement a course correction.

For developers: I don't, and likely never will know enough to say for sure but my Microsoft software is working pretty damn well on all of my computers; the big HP desktop, the <£200 Chromebook, and the Pixel 2. Steve Jobs once raved about Apple's integration... well they really need to make sure that continues to be great, otherwise the premium label becomes much less reasonable.

(sorry about the length, I swear I'll soon have my blog going again so I can dump this stuff there 😅)

@manton Apple are absolutely loaded ($1trillion dollar company) and as much as I still love them they should reduced tax on devs in app store, invest money in apple developer programmes and spend more on the mac / macOS & improve cloud services big time,plus just give everyone more free storage space for starters!

@manton This is probably too much to hope for, but one of my initial thoughts about the affiliate removal was if Apple was doing that in preparation to lower their cut below 30%. But if that’s the case, it seems like it could be wise to have done both of those announcements at the same time.