In a rural area you buy a cheap building and buy all the tools. In an urban area, for most of these at least, you join a makerspace. Many urban makerspaces have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tools.
Car dealers provide a lot of utility. They let you test drive cars, help with financing, provide warranty service, buy your trade in, etc. Even without these archaic laws these utilities would still be needed. However, the market would likely find far more efficient business models than the currant car dealer.
It is time to end these laws that stop competition. Let America innovate with better business models. The only losers are current car dealership owners that refuse to adapt.
The lack of a network of competing dealerships and independent mechanics means that Tesla gets to charge whatever they want for repair, with no ability of the market, or competition to drive down costs.
I completely agree we need alternatives for car repair that being said dealership competing on repair is hard to accept. Hopefully independent mechanics steps up and a way to certify that work would be great.
Where have you owned a BMW? Honda, no, but in areas where there are fewer people rich enough to own a BMWn(maintenance on those things adds up), they'll go the extra mile, with pickup, and loaner cars.
They started stockpiling key components after the earthquake roughly 8 years ago. You could do this globally if everyone took the Toyota approach and only stockpiled components likely to suffer disruption.
Every single big company will only allow their payment method. None that can afford to change will want to pay Apple's cut if they don't have to. If this passes, for any big successful app, using Apple payment will not be an option.
Small developers will likely still use Apple because it is easy. The cut is likely less than the hassle of using a different system.
After an update took away the required login setting for a purchase, Twice I have called Apple and received a refund when my kid spent hundreds of dollars in a couple hours. What is going to happen when that is a malicious game developer? They are not giving that money back. The cable monopolies show how monopolies will make it exceedingly hard to cancel a subscription.
As a mere consumer, that is no longer developing for a living, I do not want this option. I do not really care if companies have to pay Apple a cut. I want easy. I want to trust who has my credit card.
> Every single big company will only allow their payment method.
Did you read the comment you replied to?
Even if this passes, Apple will still be able to require that all apps offer Apple pay as an option for in-app payments.
They just won't be able to prevent developers from offering additional payment options, or from informing users about Apple's 30% cut, or from charging a different price to users who opt to pay using another method.
> Even if this passes, Apple will still be able to require that all apps offer Apple pay as an option for in-app payments.
Not possible if the developer only offers their app via their own competing app store, which won't be subject to forced Apple Pay nor Apple's in-app payment system integration.
iOS Apps (at least the ones downloaded via Apple's App Store) have a pop-up for children to request their parents purchase an app or an in-app purchase. To add, this will probably not be possible if third-party developers start only offering their own payment methods.
