>>zdw+(OP)
Not a huge surprise, there's an iCloud antitrust alleging a 78% gross profit margin:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.42...

The Epic legal case ruling cites a 75% profit margin on App Store fees:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...

And of course, their 36% share of Google Ad revenue revealed in Google's antitrust has to be approximately 100% profit:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/google-pays-apple-36percent-...

>>zdw+(OP)
Upton Sinclair coined the oft-cited maxim “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” I propose a corollary: It is difficult to get a company to see that certain of its core competencies[1] are in severe decline[2] when the company is making more money than ever.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/30/apple-reports-r...

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/resizing_windows_macos_26

[2] https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_th...

>>echelo+36
Epic is hardly a puppy. Scale isn't the only determining factor in how to view these actions by companies.

Ironically, the tech industry at large went after Lina Khan even though she was instrumental in moving forward with taking on tech industry monopolies[0] even though they themselves have complained about the App Store for years[1] because monopoly enforcement also included shutting down anticompetitive mergers like the Figma buyout.

Selective enforcement is how we got here in the first place.

This is why the tech industry writ large did a 180 on Trump and helped to get him elected. Apparently monopolies are good if it means payouts for investors. Despite the fact they'd stand to make more in a highly competitive marketplace, not less, as has been shown throughout history

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/real-reason-silicon-valley-h...

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/y-combinator-says-apples-a...

>>jbvers+L2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

>>zdw+(OP)
Ah. We had:

Margin call (the term):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_(finance)#Margin_call

Margin Call (the good movie):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_Call

I guess now we have "Margin Call", the one page long blog entry.

>>msy+T9
People have been getting zero-click hacked on iPhones by Israeli malware now also in use by ICE, even recently. I don't blame Apple too much given what they're up against, but zero-clicks are the worst thing possible.

[0] https://www.securityweek.com/paragon-graphite-spyware-linked...

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-...

>>irl_ze+ZT1
> I don't know what HarmonyOS is and I am pretty tech savvy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS