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by emsy 847 days ago
There's a clip where Steve Jobs talks about how Xerox became run by salesman. The current Apple is not quite there yet, but it's very slowly heading in that direction.
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Phil Schiller previously had suggested [1] Apple should lower their cut once the App Store is bringing in $1b of profit a year. That feels pretty reasonable to me, but they're clearly addicted to the huge cashflows that come from taking 30%, and I feel like they'd raise it if the market would bear it. After all, their products and services keep getting better...

1: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22418828/apple-app-store-c...

You do know that Steve Jobs was CEO when the App Store was launched.

And in the 15 years since then very little has changed with how it works.

You can make the same mistakes you warn others about actually (and the App Store is not the only offender in this regard).
And wasn't Steve Jobs a Ringling Brothers level salesman?
Steve Jobs literally named the company after the summer he spent picking fruit with the Hare Krishna cult.

The cult of Apple lives, even though Mr. Jobs died of acute pancreatitis wrought by his exclusively fruit based diet.

Can't make this shit up.

> Can't make this shit up

Ironic, because you just did. Jobs thought he could cure his cancer through diet, and didn't. There's no indication that his diet caused his cancer.

Probably just a coincidence that Kutcher was hospitalized twice for pancreatitis after adopting Jobs' diet in preparation for the role.

https://www.self.com/story/mila-kunis-ashton-kutcher-hospita...

> in the 15 years since then very little has changed

that's what happens at companies that become ossified and management oriented.