Apple's App Store and Google Play (Digital Distribution Platforms)
Digital distribution platforms like Apple's App Store and Google Play are described as profiting from developers' labor, taking a large share of revenue while developers bear the cost and risk of making the content.
The first level is seen in digital distribution platforms (like Apple's App Store or Google Play) which act as parasites on the collective labor of app developers. The platforms [+] profit enormously from the content created by developers, who bear the cost and risk of production, while the platform extracts a significant percentage of their revenue.
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- Parasitism · relation
- Products · element
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- Chapter 7, section 080 · Parasitism [+,−]
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