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so that's a 45% cut for Google

makes the widely hated app store look generous by comparison

[Workaccount2]

The overhead for something like youtube is insane. There is good reason there is no competitor to it.

[blibble]

there are competitors (dailymotion, vimeo, ...)

they're just not widely used because it's the usual winner take all

people are also going to be queuing up to peer with Google so they don't have to pay for transit

unlikely to be the case for their competitors