Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

Post by squibonpig » Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 8:37 PM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #901

siavosh wrote: post #827

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And the board would replace them. It’s their fiduciary duty.

Boards are not some sort of unelected shadow government that exists to depose leaders if they aren't squeezing enough blood from the stone. Appointing a new CEO is time consuming and carries enormous market ramifications that could backfire on shareholders if it goes wrong, putting their own board seats at risk. Stability and peaceful transitions of power benefit everybody in this prisoner's dillema. A new CEO will b…

Post by musicale » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 2:43 AM UTC

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simondotau wrote: post #337

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For interactive entertainment, I see no moral obligation for Apple to adopt any particular policy unless all major digital game store operators (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve etc) are subject to the same requirements. For all other apps, I agree that alternative payment processing should be permitted for one-off transactions. And I can agree for subscriptions as well, provided the developer can meet a high standar…

> no moral obligation for Apple to adopt any particular policy unless all major digital game store operators (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve etc) are subject to the same requirements. Why? iPhones are not gaming consoles.

Post by qingcharles » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 4:14 AM UTC

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mhitza wrote: post #203

Just stop publishing the app, not every little thing needs an app. What the use for the app anyway? Notifications and apple pay?

I'm running a small service, sub 150 users, no online signup kind of business, B2B. Small EU country. 95% of users ask 'do you have an mobile app?' in first 5 minutes of onboarding. Telling them how to install a PWA (and what it is and so forth) is an uphill battle. Unfortunately App Stores rule the non technical crowd.

Post by andrekandre » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 7:58 AM UTC

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Apple’s App Store profits on commissions from digital sales Revenue $32 B Operating Costs $7 B [1] Estimated Profit $25 B Operating Margin ~78% [1] R&D, security, hosting, human review, and including building and maintaining developer tools Xcode, APIs, and SDKs. Apple could take just 7% cut and still make 20% profits. Fun Fact: During the Epic trial, it was revealed that Apple's profit margins on the App Store were…

  > developer tools Xcode

Post by mircerlancerous » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC

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Service workers allow you to control cache in web apps; you may be a bit out of date. There are hardware APIs for some stuff that only works in native (cors, raw tcp), but 99% of apps don't need those.

I think the parent may be referring to the fact that safari/webkit will evict all localstorage/indexeddb/caches etc after 7 days of not visiting a site. And apparently this now extends to PWAs making it a pretty big blog to building any infrequently accessed PWA that needs to persist user data locally.