[_dibly]

I think it's funny that you accuse someone of not considering the alternatives with the supporting argument that 'they probably considered the alternatives'. What makes you think a for-profit company is thinking about the long-term negative impacts of their business on the industry when that's rarely the case in a free market?

>Actual money in the hand now is worth more than theoretical money in the future and so on.

Exactly, short-term profit will almost always trump long-term problems. Is that so difficult to consider?

[marcinzm]

This is a discussion regarding third party developers who use the Apple platform. I honestly have no clue how your statements tie into that in any way.

[_dibly]

Third party developers are typically for-profit, and your argument was that those developers are capable of factoring in the long-term impacts of their decisions over the short-term profits when in reality that is very frequently not the case.

>They likely did the math and found that the risk is worth the reward to them

GP is saying that they likely did not do the math or that they prioritized short-term gains over the long-term impacts of their decisions as for-profit entities typically do.

I'm not sure what there was to misunderstand about my original comment since I more or less said exactly that.

[marcinzm]

>GP is saying that they likely did not do the math or that they prioritized short-term gains over the long-term impacts of their decisions as for-profit entities typically do.

No, GP said they did not consider future impact, period. I said that entities can consider future impact and still choose short term profit (and that it is often rational to do so). I then pointed out that assuming someone else didn't do the math because their results are different than your results is egoistical.