Apple reduce their percentage to 15% on subscriptions that run for more than a year too. I guess it depends if Twitter lasts a year more.

Google used to do the same, but I see now they offer 15% from the beginning since last year.

Youtube is cheaper if you don't pay via Apple, by £5/month if you are willing to pay UK rates.

So it's not just twitter that's doing this, but clearly the narrative is Elon bad etc.

Musk might have continued: "as long as I don't try to charge for the subscription outside the App Store."

So Musk got sweet FA from Tim Apple and instead decided to raise prices for Twitter users. Of course this audacious move was praised on Twitter by Musk's simp army.

I think it more likely at said meeting that Cook pointed out that Musk needs Apple more than Apple needs Musk. It'd be a shame say if iPhones stopped bluetooth pairing with Teslas.

There are a couple of things that are kind of telling about the meeting.

1: Twitler went to Cook, not the other way around

2: It's obvious Cook told him that Apple could stage a hostile takeover of all of Twitler's public companies if so desired, and make it an all cash offer with the cash the company has on hand

3: As you rightly point out, Twitter absolutely needs Apple while Apple doesn't really need Twitter

Twitler - either a brilliant Freudian slip, or I am behind on some slang!

'Twitler' has been a thing since His Muskiness first acquired Twitter and fired half the staff.

The one thing Apple would never ever do is buy Twitter.

They might offer His Muskiness what it's worth: $1.00. Just to see the smoke.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." ---Maya Angelou

I have to think this is a minor nuisance for TC, if at all, doesn't he get more income anyway? And if nobody ponies up for the badge, what then?

Exactly, Musk needs Apple way, way more than Apple needs...well anyone. I say that as someone who has a dislike of all things fruity-tech-badged!

Twitler is just flinging shit at any and every surface, hoping something will stick.

After all, they seem happy to be ripped off £200 for 8GB of extra RAM. That's, I dunno, about 400 to 500% more than most other makers. Hahahahahahaha. But but it's Apple and it's the bestest thing in the whole world.

And that extra is still there at resale, rather than deciding if to use the device as a doorstop or paperweight.

And yes I have both Android and Apple.

Not just Apple much as I hate to defend them, extra storage is definitely a rip off.

Amazon - Samsung S22 Ultra

256GB = £939

512GB = £1149

I always figure Apple are selling extremely expensive storage which just happens to come inside an iPhone or iPad to actually make use of it.

"...they seem happy to be ripped off £200 for 8GB of extra RAM. That's, I dunno, about 400 to 500% more than most other makers."

An amazing lack of understanding of how market forces work. The fact they will pay this much is what you seem to be missing.

Shockingly, companies are out to make a profit, so if the market will bear that price then go ahead and charge it. This is called a successful business and is generally the goal of all businesses.

Nobody is forcing anybody to pay this, consumers are spending that of their own choosing. You're correct in adding "most other makers" have to charge 400 - 500% less because that's what their target market is prepared to pay.

"Hahahahahahaha" indeed.

Feel free to downvote or argue against it but the revenue stats for Apple products are against you on this one!

-> The fact they will pay this much is what you seem to be missing.

I'm not missing that at all. I have highlighted it. There's people out there who would pay for Apple bog roll at £1 a sheet if each sheet had an Apple logo on it.

I picked memory as an example because I don't think that Apple's memory is more expensive at source than, say, HP's or Dell's. But they mark it up in the most egregiously greedy fashion. £200 for an extra 8GB is very very greedy.

So if Apple customers are stupid enough to pay 4 to 5 times the cost for memory, let them pay more for having Twitter.

No downvote from me.

Am I totally missing the point here or what's stopping you registering on your desktop, then using the account on your iThingy?

Absolutely nothing as I understand it, except the iOS app isn't allowed to say there is another option or link directly to it.

A Blue Tick does not signify what it did before Twitter got Musked.

It only signifies that you are mug enough to pay the monthly subscrioption.

Or am I missing something?

I think your replies come below those who do pay, so your visibility is lower.

I've never wanted the blue tick myself.

That said, it did have a use in that it did signify that Twitter had made some effort to verify you are who you say. This could be important if you are a celebrity, brand or any account that has lots of followers.

My account doesn't have lots of followers, and I don't give a rat's if you believe I am who I say. I just use my twitter account to comment on other people's tweets, so I don't want a blue tick, but I think now the Blue tick is just a sign you are paying $8 (or $11) a month, so I'm definitely not bothered now.

In a nutshell, yes!

"Hello I'm stupid enough to pay extra for this company to put my incoherent, mindless bollocks above all the other mindless, incoherent bollocks on this platform!"

Apart from the Blue badge, Twitter Blue members will get early access to new features. Twitter says some features coming to subscribers include fewer ads (50 per cent less), better visibility of profiles and posts, and the ability to post longer videos.

Of course being a mug comes with responsibilities too -

Twitter says users who want to get the Blue badge on their profiles will need to verify their mobile numbers. The company introduced this security option as many spam and parody profiles got verified last time when the Blue subscription was rolled out. Twitter is also taking measures to restrict verified users from changing their profile names. The last time Twitter Blue was available to users, many parody accounts changed their names and DP (display image), mainly to imitate famous personalities like Elon Musk. This caused a lot of confusion and misinformation. Twitter says, "Subscribers will be able to change their handle, display name or profile photo, but if they do, they’ll temporarily lose the blue checkmark until their account is reviewed again."

(Have they thought about burner phones?)

Google Voice and Magic Jack and many other VoIP services, many of them free, exist.

A Blue Badge generally means you are a disabled driver. A Blue Twitter tick indicates you are a disabled Twitter user. What will someone try to monetise next? Greedy shits.

to never, ever, use Twitter.

Hmm. What if I were to set up Twitter using a web browser (say, Firefox, rigged to report that it's on Win10, when it might/might not be on Win 10. Or it might/might not actually be Firefox...) and get the blue tick using the browser? Would His Muskiness charge me $8 or $11? I don't know if you're required to use an app to use the blue tick, as I've never used Twitter, but if I had to use the app, what's stopping me from downloading it on Windows, Linux, Android, anything except iOS or macOS? Has His Muskiness never heard of, say Parallels or VMWare or even (shudder) Virtual Box? Note that it's perfectly possible to emulate Android on Windows and Mac. See https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/create-android-emulator or https://thedroidguy.com/best-android-emulator-for-mac-1090626 for just a few possible contenders.

This would assume that I was sufficiently desperate for a Twitter fix that I'd go to all that trouble. I have, I repeat, never used Twitter.

I might, however, be convinced to change my heathen ways if, for example, I could have multiple emulators running in different VMs and use them to poison their stats, troll the hell out of them, and generally screw with them. Even so, I probably wouldn't spring for the blue tick, given that the odds are that they'd yank the account sooner rather than later. Whereupon I'd just fire up a different VM and create a new account, lather, rinse, repeat. And I'd only connect from a large network, such as a major school site. The University of Miami is literally just down the road from me, I can connect to their guest wireless easily, and if the Musketeers tracked the IP address they'd see that it's coming from a location with tens of thousands of users. The main campus (there are seven) of Miami-Dade College is even closer than UM; Miami-Dade is the largest tertiary education institution in the United States, with something like 174,000 students. (No, I'm not making that number up.) Go ahead, Musketeers, block their IP... And MacDonald's and such fast 'food' places with wireless abound. Go on, block Mickie Dee. Hmmm.

Not that I'd actually advocate doing anything like this, of course. No matter how much fun I could have playing with the Musketeers.

As for Twitter, do humanity a favour Mr Musk and...

"Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way!"

This is how commerce works… when a retailer like Apple takes a bigger cut, the price is higher at that store, why would it be any different online? If you buy through Twitter directly you can still use all the same twitter iOS apps and it costs less money.

‘You’re one of those condescending Mac users!’…

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/3las1l/dilbert_had_it_right_back_in_1995/