Is that what you’re referring to?
Yes. I’ll admit, I don’t know a whole lot about development and everything that it entails, but nuance is key here. Say what you will about Proton, but this ruling just set a precedent that Apple cannot take a cut from purchases completed within an app. That affects everyone who puts their app on Apple’s app store, including smaller devs.
I’m just looking at this from a bigger picture perspective. Apple has more than enough money already, and frankly there are far too many companies like this who need to be cut back down.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, a fraction of a cent per customer is double dipping. w/e
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Precedent is precedent, and now smaller independent devs can use this ruling to their favor.
LoKout@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This won’t help small devs. Here’s why:
You have zero market. Pay to make your own payment portal, processing, etc etc. With what? Venture funding? Personal investment? Offload to square or PayPal and they take a cut instead?
Apple charges 15% (not 30% for under 2 mil) of each $1. Making 85c per transaction with no upfront costs seems reasonable.