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Cory Doctorow<p>But at least you can buy audiobooks on Apple Books. There are plenty of services whose gross margins are lower than 30%. Apple's 30% <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/AppTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AppTax</span></a> renders these unviable, and if Apple doesn't deign to offer its own in-house monopoly version, the service is simply unavailable as an iPhone app. </p><p>But that's not the only bad outcome. Some lucky service providers are able to pay the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/AppleTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AppleTax</span></a> by gouging Apple's *customers*, raising prices to pay the danegeld. That's the second effect.</p><p>4/</p>
deadprogram<p>Already hearing/seeing a number of issues with people upgrading to macOS Ventura, all having to do with running open source. :/</p><p>Case in point, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@adafruit" class="u-url mention">@<span>adafruit</span></a></span> blog post about problem flashing microcontrollers:</p><p><a href="https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/10/31/uploading-uf2-files-with-macos-13-0-ventura-apple-microbit_edu-raspberry_pi-circuitpython/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.adafruit.com/2022/10/31/u</span><span class="invisible">ploading-uf2-files-with-macos-13-0-ventura-apple-microbit_edu-raspberry_pi-circuitpython/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.tinygo.org/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://social.tinygo.org/tags/appletax" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>appletax</span></a> <a href="https://social.tinygo.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://social.tinygo.org/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hardware</span></a></p>
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