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by nerdo 1006 days ago
Was the 30% of everyone's revenue ever explained? Why not 90%? Were they looking at common tax fractions, Laffer curve, etc?
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It was the same split they took selling music, movies, TV shows and ringtones in iTunes.
Steve Jobs just came up with the number. There was no deep reasoning behind it.