I didn’t even know Patreon had a mobile app. To me, Patreon is just one of those Big Adult Things you have to do on a computer. Seems to work just fine on mobile browser (Firefox for Android) though. Apple being mega greedy as usual.
“This is a huge moment for creators and their businesses,” - Patreon will update its iPhone app to sidestep Apple’s payment system. Patreon was forced to pay 30% fees
Submitted 1 week ago by dwazou@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/659754/patreon-update-iphone-ios-app-apple-payment-system-ruling
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umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 1 week ago
As someone who attempts to watch content on the iOS app, it’s a massive pile of shit and you’re right to use the browser only
oppy1984@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The change from pay per episode to per month was a direct result of crApple’s 30% tax. This hurt Patreon directly because a bunch of creators were pissed about the change and blamed Patreon for not fighting back, so they left. So Patreon has lost revenue over this, how much I have no idea but I know several of the podcasts I listen to have stopped asking you to pay via Patreon and are now asking you to donate via Substack or their private donation page.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Fuck closed off mobile stores, it’s all a scam.
Why are we ceding control over our personal computers to organizations who would limit our use of them?
If we have platforms capable of running arbitrary code then we should be able to do it.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is exactly it. It feels like about 99% of the crap these companies are pushing has no reason to be an app. Patreon is already primarily a web page. I guarantee you everything anyone cares about in the app you can do on the mobile version of the web page. Without being locked to the App Store/Google Play, and on (practically) any device. Isn’t that what these companies should want in the first place? Totally device and platform agnostic, ready for the maximum amount of
suckerspotential paying customers to be able to access it?
pelya@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Patreon app is literally their website. What does it do that the website does not? Notifications? Offline images? All of these can be done in your mobile browser.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Notifications, and no browser UI to get in the way. You can do a PWA, but that’s beyond the scope of the average users.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No browser UI to get in the way? Is it really that difficult to manage?
pelya@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No app needed. Tell me if it works on your phone.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Don’t forget data gathering.
And possibly but probably not; 2FA
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 week ago
0% is “up to 30%”
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Good. If I download an app with the intent to pay a content creator who uses that app to post content, I don’t see why my choice of app store should have any bearing on how much of that money goes to the content creator, nor why the company who hosts that app on their store should get any income from said internal payments whatsoever. Patreon (and everyone else) already pays Apple to simply host the app in their store. Apple is double-dipping by doing this and throwing an absolute fit comparable to that of a toddler who was just told “no”.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 week ago
Anyone who cares could have just gone to the website to make their payment but the real fucked up thing is that Apple ToS prevents them from disclosing that.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Wow. That’s pretty shitty.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They did disclose it, though. I got popups every time I logged in for weeks warning of the imminent additional cut Apple was going to take from donators/creators, which explicitly spelled out that payments made via other platforms would not be affected by this cut.
Maybe they were prevented from doing so in the iOS app, but they sure did it everywhere else.