Block all safari users on your side projects guys. Don't support digital feudalism
Yes! Everyone let's support Google's monopoly on the web!
Block chrome too, redirect to Firefox.
Apple's kicking us off the App Store unless we give them 30% of all transactions
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Re: Apple's kicking us off the App Store unless we give them 30% of all transactions
#22This Twitter thread is just a pain to read. Sure, Apple is charging a lot for their platform. It raises anti-trust issues as a duopoly. The irony here is that the Fanhouse business model itself is exactly what Apple is doing on the App Store, the only difference is that they’re not a monopoly/duopoly power. By that I mean: why would anyone give Fanhouse a 10% cut when credit card transactions only cost 2-3%? Oh, righ…
The difference here is that Fanhouse has to compete with other similar apps, thus the current 10% is driven by the market, not artificial restrictions. Also, Netflix got some really special treatment: https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/05/netflix-apple-in-app-purchase...
> Other similar apps
My first assumption by the subtitle was the 'SFW Fan-Creator Platform' essentially a SFW variant of OnlyFans. In which case, OnlyFans was able to function with a browser only setup... why can this not follow for Fan house?
I use Patreon in the browser, checking on posts via email. And don't get me wrong, I dislike the in-ability to sideload applications on iOS, but that's much par for the course with Apple.
Re: Apple's kicking us off the App Store unless we give them 30% of all transactions
#23Well… yes. This is a well-established factor of being in the App Store which not even other massive corporations are exempt from, and surely she knew about it before submitting her app. Did she think an exception would be made for her for some reason?
> not even other massive corporations are exempt from
Massive corporations can sometimes make a special deal with Apple.
Small companies, not so much.
Therefore it makes sense for small companies to assume that they will have to follow Apple's rules, whether or not they agree with them.
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#24once again, the 30% is not a transaction fee. It's a platform fee, and it's in line with every other platform.
Identifying it as a platform commission rather than a payment processing charge would nullify the argument that "Apple/Google/Nintendo/etc. is unfairly overcharging for payment processing" so it cannot be identified as such by anyone making that argument.
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#25If the same company has both and Android and iOS app, does that company need to pay 30% to both Apple and Google. I am thinking learning apps like Pluralsight etc. They have one user account but then let the user access the content on multiple devices Android and iOS
How does the payments work in that case.
Re: Apple's kicking us off the App Store unless we give them 30% of all transactions
#26It’s rough there hasn’t been more progress since we last heard about this 7 months ago[0],
There are some good suggestions in the comments to that post.
It’s understandable that the marketplace owner wants to have an iOS app and not just a site like OnlyFans.