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

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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Both the Appstore and Google Play do literally nothing for you, except distribution.

I mean distribution is not “nothing”. They have to maintain the app store, and process payments, and filter (most) malicious software.

It’s just not worth anywhere near 30%, not to mention the flurry of ads all over the place.

At least with Android it’s completely possible to have a third-party app or app store and charge using their own payment processes without ever touching the Google Play store.

Apple is a whole other level of control and anti-competitiveness, and they’ve been profiting off of it for decades with no intervention in sight.

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