Comment on Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store

helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, I actually think this policy is 100% correct and, if more services did this instead of eating the costs, we could have a real discussion about the harm caused by arbitrary fees.

  It will likely result in Apple seeking a special deal with Patreon to avoid this mess though. It’s really not a good look for Apple especially as they cater themselves to the creatives market.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    they cater themselves to the creatives market

    LOL only in advertising.

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    • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, sure, but this counteracts all that money they spend when most artists make their money on Patreon or similar (if they make any money at all, frankly.)

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  • neclimdul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Being as this is very similar to the apple epic legal fight that epic lost earlier this year, I doubt apple will make a deal. My understanding is that patreon can cave, choose to pay 27% commission, or make their own store.

    Though skimming the news around epic’s attempts to make a store, you “can” make a store in compliance with EU and UK laws, but apple made it kinda impossible to actually do and epic is fighting it in court again?

    So patreon seems to have read the lay of things and said I guess we just have to make the best of a shitty situation and communicate everything to try to limit the pain.

    It’s almost like apple feels like they have the power to do whatever they want because they’ve created a market where they don’t have competition…

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Until recently, apps were not even allowed to charge less outside their apps than on the app store or to link to outside stores.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We should thank the European Union for that.

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      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks European Union

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      • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The EU (where I live) is a bureaucracy nightmare sometimes, and is often far too removed from citizens. It has a gazillion problems, but as far as data protections and customer rights it does some things half right.

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    • sour@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They were allowed to charge less, just not mention or link to it in any way. Proton has been doing it for a while that the Apple in-app purchases are roughly 30% higher.

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• about_13_13_unruly_goats@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah this is well overdue

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