Yeah, hopefully Patron doesn’t roll over and just removes the option to do it in iPhone. Taking away functionality will make Apple look bad, which they deserve.
Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
To make this clear: Patreon is a platform mainly used by creators, artists, musicians to get a reliable income directly from their fans. Apple is trying to steal 30% of the income of our favorite artists.
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
other_cat@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
They already caved.
On Wednesday, Patreon said Apple has renewed its requirement that all Patreon creators must move to subscription billing. The deadline to do so is November 1, 2026.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s silly that they don’t just operate from the browser. It’s how I use Patreon on my (admittedly not iPhone) Phone.
They should have just pulled Patreon from the app store.
It’s not like it’s such an impediment to ask users to use their browser.
In an ideal world we would not have monopolies controlling app stores, but I think Patreon is really stupid for not just abandoning the app store.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I really think this move blows and I wish they would reverse this decision and make an exception.
However Tim Cook didn’t wake up one day and wonder how he could fuck creators. Apple takes a 30% cut of all app transactions. This is how they benefit from the enormous and highly successful app platform and ecosystem they created. It’s not pure evil to say “hey use this platform all you want but you must share some of what you make there with us.”
It does suck that they won’t let creators off the hook though. This is like taxing rips.
Taldan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The platform is enormous and highly successful solely because it is a monopoly in the Apple ecosystem
I guarantee you if other app stores were allowed on Apple devices, they would take significant market share with a far smaller cut of revenue
Limerance@piefed.social 1 week ago
There are alternative App Stores in Europe for iOS. So far they haven’t been very successful, because of Apple‘s interference.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We can safely assume that alternative app stores would have less effect on iOS than they have on Android, where Google desperately wants others to step in and develop their ecosystem. And they aren’t very significant on Android at all. I tried distributing my app on Samsung Galaxy in addition to GPlay and despite its preferential positioning with the world’s largest phone maker, I got peanuts for installs. Not even a rounding error. I literally took the app down. Oh and then Xiaomi got banned from the SDK and they stole my APK for their third party app store and began sending me bug reports about how it was “broken” there. Ah yes the power and glory of alternative app stores… Apple are wise not to dump this cesspit into their ecosystem, which people love because all they want is one decent, unified default that works well.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Good thing none of us have iPhones here, right, guys? Right?
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Been locked in this ecosystem for a while guys. I’m not proud of it.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It’s better than the alternatives, unfortunately. I really want to dump Apple; the products are waning in quality and the company is spending a lot of time genuflecting for king tangerine. But it just works.
“Just install grapheneOS” my brother in Christ, I have no time or interest in fucking up with the primary communication device I rely on to reach family, friends, and work. I don’t have time for the hobbies I want to do let alone adding work-adjacent activities under the cloak of a hobby.
karashta@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Installing graphene was not like flashing a ROM ten years ago. You just follow the simple steps on the web installer.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Nothing would prevent you from communicating with a Graphene OS phone. It’s a smartphone OS, not compiling Arch here…
But use whatever excuse you can find to stay in the Apple ecosystem, that’s fine.
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The ecosystem is really seamless, especially with a MacBook and Apple watch in the mix.
Though I don’t think there is any winning in the smartphone space. There is a duopoly and even if you personally use graphineOS you still are benefitting and helping the Google ecosystem by using Android apps.
Sadly I don’t think we can “vote with our wallets” on smartphones. We need legal legislation that forces both Apple and Google to be consumer friendly.
timestatic@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Just buy a Fairphone from Murena with /e/OS preinstalled. You don’t have to do anything yourself. It mainly works like a phone without any issues, all the features I need work on it and I didn’t have to install it manually and supported the devs
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Never too late to switch to GrapheneOS.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can’t unlock my bootloader so i’m fucked.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am in it for not too long, I wanted a Framework notebook but they didn’t sell in my country so I couldn’t purchase it through my business so I went with macbook and iphone next to because, why not.
I generally don’t care much about things like in the op news tbh, as if I have a subscription for something I use it directly from the website
And stuff like the seemless integration when switching from my phone to my MacBook with my airpods is fucking great.
but I am not a normal techie, I am waaay overindexed on user experience over a lot of things, for example I pay for spotify because the Ux is great for me, I refuse to pay for streaming devices because my own plex/jellyfin server is a much better UX.
I am also refusing to buy cars without physical buttons.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Definetly not, wayyyy to closed.
knexcar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But I like my blue iMessages!
kevin2107@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t rofl