And there goes your engagement.
Apples got them, and Apple knows it.
Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App
LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If I was on Patreon I’d tell them to pull the app. Fuck em they have a website.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Conversely, Apple is nothing but an overpriced burner phone without the apps. No one is buying it for safari and iTunes.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
You can already pay on the website. If you pay through Apple Pay and therefore pay the extra 30%, that’s kinda on you at this point.
Cunt move by Apple, but the in-app purchase payment processing going through apple only rule has been there for a long ass time, Patreon got pretty lucky that they were given so much leeway for so long.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 week ago
the patreon influencers just need to warn to pay through the website.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Right? You’d think Patreon could throw their weight against Apple, as this is clearly not in their best interest. Threaten to pull the app, and if Apple follows through, they get nothing. Alternatively, move payments entirely outside of the app and force Apple to either do something which is guaranteed to be extremely unpopular, or call their bluff.
Apple may appear to swing the biggest dick here, but I am so disgusted by these weak companies just immediately bending over without a fight.
Of course, it’s the creators who will be faced with hardship, but neither entity seems to give a shit.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Is It better for patreon to lose 30% of income from Apple pay, or to have Apple users not being able to pay unless they open the webpage and pay from there? Is it better for them to remove the app altogether and have users on Apple forced to use it through the website?
I’d imagine they’d lose quite a bit of subscriptions if they did that. Is that more or less than 30% is something I don’t know.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They could go on the offensive with messaging and get subscribers to apply pressure on Apple to keep things the same… Would it work? Probably not, but it might get some of the Apple users onside.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes. Clearly yes, for everyone. This sort of shit only continues because people don’t do that.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 week ago
I would imagine this would lead to having less users. Or people that use it less. It would also make the experience for users worse. As such it would lead to less subscriptions. It is not clear to me that this would be better. I’m not sure on whether it would be worse, but I doubt it’d be better for everyone.