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Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
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Re: Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
#72Back 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. --- 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 a…
Why we didn't hear anything about it at the time?
Re: Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
#73Re: Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's not a surcharge on your bill. That's when you have to pay 30% more than the main price. This is you paying the main price, but the organization you (likely) want to support is only getting 30%.
70%, Apple takes 30%.
Re: Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
#75Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301332
I think the media are trolling Facebook now by reprinting the same story every day. The Streisand effect of sorts.
Or it might be Facebook trying to keep the Apple tax news longer in the headlines. (I'm just speculating)
Re: Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
#76Re: Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
#77A 30% cut isn’t really out of line with the markup most stores or distributors put on nearly everything you buy, nor are secret business details. I’m not trying to judge right or wrong, but hoping to point out a store taking that cut is the standard not the exception.
That isn't really the issue. The issue is that you have to use Apple's store. There's no alternative.
Re: Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
#78This situation is very good for the first start-up that will offer a website that works like an application store and provides crossplatform games/apps etc. along with a good SDK. Time for the web to neutralize the old monopolies
Re: Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
#79A 30% cut isn’t really out of line with the markup most stores or distributors put on nearly everything you buy, nor are secret business details. I’m not trying to judge right or wrong, but hoping to point out a store taking that cut is the standard not the exception.
That isn't really the issue. The issue is that you have to use Apple's store. There's no alternative.
And even if there was most people wouldn’t sue anything other than the default or biggest store. Apple store policies for developers is making a lot of devs really hate Apple.
Re: Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
#80So what percent DO you guys think is fair?
5%