Re: Royalties? What royalties?
Apple f***ed up big time on this one, no doubt about that.
I imagine that little gets sanctioned within Apple unless it can be demonstrably shown to be turning a profit, despite their hundreds of billions in the bank.
Example: Apple iCloud comes with 5GB free storage per user. Which, these days, is pretty paltry, especially when you consider that a given Apple user is likely to have more than one Apple device, and Apple certainly try to persuade these users to buy multiple devices. Rather than show a little generosity and bump up that allowance to something far more sensible, like 20GB, Apple are more than happy to bother users with a 79p invoice each month for the privilege.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
