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Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
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#23It’s almost like Apple are trying to become the villain.
It's been like this since the beginning. Only now has Epic Games (along with slight pressure from the antitrust hearings) created the perfect PR storm to get the spotlight on Apple's practices.
Relevant (about "Sherlocking"): https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/06/developers-talk-a...
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#24Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301332
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#25I feel the text might have been better if they said "the business will receive 70%, Facebook doesn't take a cut"
As a donator, I’d be alarmed if a company tried to hide a 30% surcharge on my bill.
Not specifying the line item is just plain sketchy.
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#26Is this the end of Apple? Will I actually switch mobile platforms from Android because third party stores are now available? Tune in next time on "2020: The Year Monopolies get questioned"
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#28This is really why the law should come down like a ton of bricks on Apple. They aren't just bleeding everyone dry, they're also trying to prevent people from realizing Apple is doing it.
FB, etc get the use of Apple's infrastructure, they get the benefits of apple providing updates to hardware for 5 years without charging consumers. That shit costs money, whether it costs 30% I don't know, but given that seems to be in the order of the charges of every other store (what % of sale price do companies get on retail sales?). The problem here is a bunch of companies have decided that they want special rul…
In-app payment processing is absolutely not worth a 30% fee. In a normal, competitive environment, Stripe and Paypal charge 3% + $0.30.
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#29This is really why the law should come down like a ton of bricks on Apple. They aren't just bleeding everyone dry, they're also trying to prevent people from realizing Apple is doing it.
FB, etc get the use of Apple's infrastructure, they get the benefits of apple providing updates to hardware for 5 years without charging consumers. That shit costs money, whether it costs 30% I don't know, but given that seems to be in the order of the charges of every other store (what % of sale price do companies get on retail sales?). The problem here is a bunch of companies have decided that they want special rul…
> In fact google charges 30% on everything as well
The difference here being, I can install any app, from anywhere onto my Android device, without modifying it any way past changing one setting. In fact there are several non-Google app stores you can install, which charge either significantly less or nothing at all to the developer.
There simply is no analogue for iPhone or iPad without jailbreaking, something that ultimately creates more headaches than it solves. For all intents and purposes, Apple holds a monopoly on marketing and distribution with regards to iOS apps, something no other device or software manufacturer is currently doing.
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#30Back in the day, Apple simultaneously:
* wanted a 30% cut on all Kindle book sales (sold via iOS)
* had negotiated with most major book publishers that any book distributer (aka Amazon, Apple, B&N, etc) must sell their books at exactly a 30% markup.
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Also, we had built a native store experience for the Kindle app before launching it.
Yet, after submitting to Apple (and not hearing anything back for weeks), Apple announced their intent to roll out in-app purchasing many months later
They also immediately blocked our submission and forced us to take out all references to the native store or even linking to the web store.