{"id":3645,"date":"2019-04-05T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2019-04-05T06:48:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:48:29","slug":"apples-app-store-antitrust-holds-learnings-for-merchants-using-greedy-pos-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/05\/apples-app-store-antitrust-holds-learnings-for-merchants-using-greedy-pos-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s App Store Antitrust Holds Learnings for Merchants Using Greedy POS Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article is part of a series that will discuss the dynamics around APIs, integrations, and fees in the SMB world.<\/em><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple's growth has slowed. This has left many analysts questioning how Apple will continue to find the upside its investors seek. Apple has even recognized this problem and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facing-iphone-troubles-apple-tries-to-change-the-story-1541253601\">changing how it intends to report its financial results<\/a>, obscuring its weaknesses. And frankly, we can't blame Apple for its conundrum: sans <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/04\/23\/asteroid-mining-trillionaire-goldman-sachs-report\/\">mining asteroids for precious metals<\/a>, it's <em>really<\/em> hard to find 10%+ annual growth in a ~trillion-dollar company.<\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is part of a series that will discuss the dynamics around APIs, integrations, and fees in the SMB world. Apple&#8217;s growth has slowed. This has left many analysts questioning how Apple will continue to find the upside its investors seek. Apple has even recognized this problem and is changing how it intends to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-merchants","category-pos","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-WN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-28-at-4.49.57-PM.png?fit=1304%2C374&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4709,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/4709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}