ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

whaaaaaaaaa wrote: post #3

ProtonMail charges a lot for their services and they have no problem with that. I don't see why Apple shouldn't get their cut.

Is Protonmail taking a cut out of any transactions that may happen over your email?

Re: ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

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Post by whaaaaaaaaa » Fri, Oct 09, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

addicted wrote: post #4

whaaaaaaaaa wrote: post #3

ProtonMail charges a lot for their services and they have no problem with that. I don't see why Apple shouldn't get their cut.

Is Protonmail taking a cut out of any transactions that may happen over your email?

No. But I feel robbed when I have to pay $8/mo for an extra virtual email box.

Sidenote: Apple also doesn't take a cut of any payments that I send with my iPhone.

Re: ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

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Post by birdyrooster » Fri, Oct 09, 2020, 3:25 PM UTC

How can one be forced to include in app purchases? This seems worded strangely. Maybe I missed the paragraph explaining how Apple did this.

Re: ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

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Post by hundchenkatze » Fri, Oct 09, 2020, 3:26 PM UTC

whaaaaaaaaa wrote: post #5

addicted wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Protonmail taking a cut out of any transactions that may happen over your email?

No. But I feel robbed when I have to pay $8/mo for an extra virtual email box. Sidenote: Apple also doesn't take a cut of any payments that I send with my iPhone.

Then you should feel robbed when $2.40 of that goes to an unrelated company.

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Post by quest88 » Fri, Oct 09, 2020, 3:27 PM UTC

They knew about the cut before writing their iOS app.

Edit: I was wrong; misread.

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Post by newbie578 » Fri, Oct 09, 2020, 3:27 PM UTC

Another thread where people will fly to defend Apple and explain how it's circumstances are similar to PS and Xbox and no one is coming after Sony, yet everyone conveniently decides not to compare Apple to early 2000s Microsoft which is basically a mirror situation.

I guess people "expect" stuff like this from Apple which is the reason we are not allowed to criticize them, yet if Microsoft came out and said Steam breaks their "arbitrary rules" (well they are Microsoft rules, you need to respect them duuh) and kicked Steam off the whole Windows platform, all hell would break loose, people would be screaming for heads to fall..

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Post by NikolaeVarius » Fri, Oct 09, 2020, 3:27 PM UTC

whaaaaaaaaa wrote: post #5

addicted wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Protonmail taking a cut out of any transactions that may happen over your email?

No. But I feel robbed when I have to pay $8/mo for an extra virtual email box. Sidenote: Apple also doesn't take a cut of any payments that I send with my iPhone.

Is someone making you use ProtonMail?