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Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning

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Re: Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning

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Post by WWLink »

syntaxing wrote: post #2

Seriously curious, what percentage is “fair”? Or is the issue you can’t side load this app without going through the App Store?

I think none. Apple is clearly nickel and diming their own customers at this point. Now you're not only paying Apple for your iPhone, and Apple services, but you're also stuck paying them extra every time you buy a service from your iPhone.

It's stupid and greedy. Like where do we draw the line?

Re: Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning

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Post by Hamuko »

thoughtstheseus wrote: post #3

Possible misleading title. Apple wants 30% of earnings, not “creator” earnings.

Not really. Apple's cut would take 30% of the creator earnings. Of course, it would also take 30% of the app's earnings.

So instead of the creator getting $90 and the app getting $10 when someone pays $100 through Fanhouse, Apple gets $30, the app gets $7 and the creator gets $63.

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Post by carabiner »

syntaxing wrote: post #2

Seriously curious, what percentage is “fair”? Or is the issue you can’t side load this app without going through the App Store?

I've never thought "fairness" to be a material concept in anything with money. I mean how could it be? Is it fair to tax people different amounts, or should everyone be taxed the same percentage? Or the same dollar amount? How can "fairness" as a concept ever be nailed down to be useful?

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Post by CubsFan1060 »

WWLink wrote: post #7
thoughtstheseus wrote: post #3

Possible misleading title. Apple wants 30% of earnings, not “creator” earnings.

Possibly misleading comment. Did you read the tweet thread? Apple is demanding 30% of all transactions sourced from an Apple device.

From the app. As someone else noticed, not having an app doesn't seem to have slowed down OnlyFans

Re: Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning

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Post by falcolas »

hellisothers wrote: post #12

Seems pretty disingenuous given they had to have known this would happen (note that OnlyFans has no app)

Makes for a great soundbite though. "We had no idea going in that stepping in front of this bus would hurt us."

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Post by beckler »

hellisothers wrote: post #12

Seems pretty disingenuous given they had to have known this would happen (note that OnlyFans has no app)

Then why do Venmo and CashApp get a pass? Is Fanhouse trying to leverage Apple’s Payment APIs without paying or something?

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Post by CubsFan1060 »

mdoms wrote: post #5

This will keep happening as long as people keep agreeing to Apple's terms and building on their platform. I wouldn't touch Apple's platform with a 10 foot pole. Nothing here is new. It's getting harder to sympathise with developers who keep doing it.

I'll give you the counterpoint. I'm very happy to spend money on apps and services that I like.

However, I'm only going to do it through Apple's platform, for a variety of reasons. If you don't want to build on Apple's platform, that's completely fine. I won't be a customer. And maybe that will change the system, I really don't know.

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