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Equation 31 · Part 1 · The Real Economics of Shipping a Model to a Device

Symbol C_dev

CdevC_{\mathrm{dev}}
CdevC_{\mathrm{dev}}

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the already paid.

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Apple’s framing is different again — a platform argument about who absorbs fixed cost, expressed to developers as inference being free of charge to them specifically because Apple, not the developer, has already paid CdevC_{\mathrm{dev}} and U once at the OS level [ 13 ] .

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…] . Apple’s framing is different again — a platform argument about who absorbs fixed cost, expressed to developers as inference being free of charge to them specifically because Apple, not the developer, has already paid CdevC_{\mathrm{dev}} and U once at the OS level [ 13 ] .

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