Maybe an unpopular perspective, but IMO its not that hard to be top 10% even with people gaming grades. Source: went to one of the top public high schools in Texas, graduated top 1%, am not that smart and didn't go to any great lengths for school. I payed attention in class, did (most of) the homework, and reviewed for final exams.
inb4 all the Apple shills who will claim they only ever want a product in a completely sandboxed environment where the device manufacturer holds their hand every step of the way
>he and his wife, Barbara, saw his nest egg — $210,000 in investments — vaporize in the stock market
what kind of investment literally vaporizes to $0? Not to be insensitive, but it seems like this shouldn't happen. The markets recovered to all time highs pretty darn quick
Exactly - there's no reason a 30% is out of line if that's what the market bears. The issue with 30% is its a monopoly with no competitors trying to push the price down. There's a chance no other service is able to provide a comparable user experience to the app store for a 20% or 25% cut, but we can't know that until Apple allows competition.