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The 30% fee is steep, but conversion rates using in-app purchase are astronomical compared to regular webpages with a credit card form. Everyone hates it (developers, I mean), but it works very well.
This isn't going to hit developers.
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Patreon has been pushing an app-based approach for awhile now; every email I get from them has callouts to open the notification in their app. I don't know why they badly want this - presumably for more user tracking, or because studies show that people engage more, or whatever - but pulling out of the app store would be at odds with this desire to push everyone into their app.
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Instead, I suspect they saw the money that patreon made and want a (30%) slice of that pie.
Why does Patreon need an app?
I think it's fair to take a fee for payments through Apple's infrastructure... but 30% is egregious.
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The 30% fee is steep, but conversion rates using in-app purchase are astronomical compared to regular webpages with a credit card form. Everyone hates it (developers, I mean), but it works very well.
This isn't going to hit developers.
Absurd. What next, they want a 30% cut from me when I set up automatic payments for my credit card through the banks iOS app?
It's fine for App Store developers to complain about their costs of doing business like any other business. I'm not sure what the point of bringing up nonsensical hypotheticals like bank payments is.
I think it's fair to take a fee for payments through Apple's infrastructure... but 30% is egregious.
Patreon doesn't currently and doesn't want to us Apple's infrastructure. They're being "forced" to do so, hence this post.
Is there a reason why Patreon doesn't just pull out of the App Store? Whenever I got Patreon rewards, I'd just get them in an email notification and the link there took me to the website. Worked great without having to download an app.
Patreon has been pushing an app-based approach for awhile now; every email I get from them has callouts to open the notification in their app. I don't know why they badly want this - presumably for more user tracking, or because studies show that people engage more, or whatever - but pulling out of the app store would be at odds with this desire to push everyone into their app.