In a series of tweets responding to an article about the European Union’s latest antitrust charges against Apple, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk likened Apple’s App Store to the equivalent of a “30% tax on the Internet” and said the fee is “10 times higher than it should be” and “definitely not ok.”
Brandon Sapienza for Bloomberg News:
Musk’s former company PayPal Holdings Inc. was instrumental in getting the antitrust suit against Apple to proceed after they raised concerns about the tech giant’s payment system with the European Commission.
Apple’s store is like having a 30% tax on the Internet. Definitely not ok.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 3, 2022
Literally 10 times higher than it should be
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 3, 2022
To publish apps in Apple’s App Store, developers pay a $99 yearly fee for access to Apple’s Developer Program. Apple’s App Store charges developers who make over $1 million in App Store sales annually a 30% commission on apps and in-app purchases of digital goods and services; sales of physical products are exempt. Subscription commission falls to 15 percent after one year. Qualified developers who make less than $1 million per year in App Store sales pay a 15% commission via Apple’s App Store Small Business Program.
MacDailyNews Take: Tesla’s Model X is 10 times higher than it should be. Definitely not ok.
Hey, this is easy! To make facile pronouncements, we don’t even need to know jack squat about a business’s equipment costs, operating costs, or anything at all!
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Definitely not a person I would ever take advise from, on any subject.
Elon Musk, the brother of ApallBS.
Well, Fred, I do advise you to get some good advice on how to spell advice properly. Bad spelling is a vice, let me tell you! It’s probably unwanted advice, though, and you know what they say about that. Personally, I like the rather fruity advice from Elon’s second cousin, who calls himself “Melon Husk.” It’s quite appealing.
Funny how the usual suspects who want Musk as Apple CEO are absent when he posts his stupidity for all to see. I guess they are all busy celebrating the removal of women’s rights to bodily autonomy.
Well, one less person to speak with when you want to build your rocket. I suppose you’re the type to see Mr. Bezos as the rocket go-to?
Elon: “Target marks up products they purchase by 40% – 200%. That’s at least 10x higher than it ever should be.”
Keep in mind, Elon is not any arbiter of unbiased talking tracks. Elon HATES Apple. From the Tesla days Elon and Apple have hammered each other over the head for engineering talents, and Elon has CONSTANTLY bashed Apple. It’s where engineers go to die if I recall one of his phrases correctly? Something like that.
So for Elon to attack Apple – this is behest of his quarrels with Apple and promotion of Tesla. It is a far cry from Elon being some arbiter of truth and virtue. Understand that.
Hey Pfizer, how safe if that mRNA shot?
Fox guarding the hen house (AKS Pfizer): Oh it’s fantastic. 100% safe and effective. Nothing to see here.
Thanks! We trust you have our best intentions at heart. Speaking of heart, how many have permanent heart scaring now?… But I digress…
Never blindly trust, but look into motivations and check things out ourself folks. Musk among those always needing to be verified as to motives – always.
Bobby – Agree with you on Elon Musk. But then you go off the rails about the damned vaccine. The evidence is pretty clear that the vaccines are safe and effective against serious illness and hospitalizations. More than three billion doses have been administered, and there’s only been a handful of serious side effects, including heart issues. You know what has a MUCH higher risk for heart issues? Getting Covid.
Here’s a breakdown of the first four months of vaccine distribution in the US, based on VAERS reports (the most recent stats I’ve found in a quick search):
“A total of 141,208 individuals suffered at least one adverse events following immunization following 239.97 million doses of COVID-19 vaccination. The frequency of side effects was 0.04% [Pfizer], 0.06% [Moderna], and 0.35% [J&J]… Most of the patients had mild systemic side effects, the most common being headache (0.01%) and fever (0.01%). The frequency of serious side effects including anaphylaxis (0.0003%) and death (0.002%) was extremely low.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34699960/
“Tesla’s Model X is 10 times higher than it should be. Definitely not ok.”
Touche’! Overpriced cars seller claiming Apple’s cut is too much?
So tired of this puke spouting off about things that have fuck all to do with him
Hopefully liberals and conservatives alike can adamantly denounce this absolute farce of a human being.
FSD, priced $7,000 two years ago, is now $12,000. That’s… “literally 10 times higher than it should be”. At least the app store mostly works as advertised and isn’t a promise of something to come, that may never appear. I purchased FSD because Elon kept promising it was only months away. It’s inconsistent and unusable in it’s current form and probably years away from being reliable enough just to use it on the highway, let alone on city streets with children, pedestrians, and bicycles that could be in the path of the car. His newest beta of Autosteer on city streets is “literally” years away, yet he’s beta testing it on civillians and saying “coming soon” on his website. Again, $12,000 is literaly 10 times more than it shoud be. I guess no one ever told Elon about glass houses.
I always suck air through my teeth when I’m about to disagree with MDN… but I gotta say the Model X is probably right about where it should be. Maybe it could go for even a little more.
Tesla’s stock is probably 20 times higher than it should be. Does anyone seriously think Tesla is worth more than the rest of the entire automobile industry…combined???
Sure, Tesla has had a good head start on the EV market. Let’s see how that plays out when deep-pocketed car companies (GM, Hyundai, Volkswagen) roll out their own built-from-the-ground-up EVs — all with similar specs as a Tesla, but with lower prices and better build quality.
My next car will almost certainly be an EV. But it will absolutely NOT be a Tesla.
With free speech inevitably comes much idiocy to churn through I’m afraid, though in all honesty it’s nice for once to actually have a tweet of his that you can actually make some sense of. This ‘I have the brain of a planet and only those with moon size brains’ will understand my brilliant intuition is decidedly Emperor’s tatty clothes aimed at the starstruck idiot …. which neatly takes me back to my opening line. A wannabe showman with a lousy show, a repetitive script and always late on stage with a faulty prop.
That’s right
“A wannabe showman with a lousy show…”
Remind us how many successful companies you have started and how many $billions you made and how many rockets you successfully sent into space.
“Apple’s App Store fee is ’10 times higher than it should be’” This problem is really bad
I realize that what Elon said is probably silly. But I admire
His accomplishments. Buying twitter is a major plus, hopefully restoring
some sanity to it. I amazed what he accomplished with SpaceX although
His desire to colonize Mars is probably unattainable. His cars are beyond
the reach of most people in price at least. But they are impressive.
Elon is not the only Person who occasionally says things that may appear
Stupid. But I do like it when they have major accomplishments.
I am not sure why people expect people that are good In one area to be expert
In all areas. Look at Hollywood, why would anyone think that person who
Is good at pretending to be someone else think they are experts at Politics.
I generally love Elon, but here, F you Elon. His cars have like over 40% margin, and his full self driving software costs $12000 and is basically all margin. His satellite service has a huge margin, so please make that free. And how about Elon sells his cars for 10x less, you know, just because I think he should. Sounds like sour grapes because apple didn’t bite when he was desperate for them to buy, which was a mistake by apple in hindsight
Twitter keeps 100% if you’ve earned less than $100, and at least 20% (there’s no defined upper limit) after $50k of revenue. how is that so different?
Musk plans to start charging companies for Twitter, and plans to keep 100% of that internet-tax.
And Tesla doesn’t even allow 3rd party autopilot SW in Tesla App Store, enabling him to charge exorbitant monopoly prices.
Let’s remember how different Elon is than anybody about economic patriotism:
https://insideevs.com/news/583769/new-tesla-plant-make-shanghai-world-largest-vehicle-export-hub/
It is confusing why some want to lionize Musk and crucify Cook for exactly the same behavior.
Both need to go away.
Tesla stock is valued at 100 times more than it should be. And will be bankrupt within a decade.