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This is deeply unethical on Apple's part and honestly feels like a harbinger of an Apple I find as distasteful as any other megacorp only interested in profit
by wrsh07 6y ago
This is deeply unethical on Apple's part and honestly feels like a harbinger of an Apple I find as distasteful as any other megacorp only interested in profit
Requiring apps that are selling digital content to fork over 30% of their revenue is shitty. Apple could do right by their customers: if they didn't fleece developers in the app store, most developers would use the native Apple payment API.
Apple is abusing the power of having a blessed app store, and they should face anti trust for this.
I don't really care what you think about David or his cofounders, Apple is in the wrong here.
This piece is paywalled, but it's worth the price of subscribing for the month: https://stratechery.com/2020/xscale-and-arm-in-the-cloud-hey-versus-apple-apples-iap-campaign/ https://stratechery.com/2020/xscale-and-arm-in-the-cloud-hey...
But his Twitter coverage is good too if you don't want to pay: https://mobile.twitter.com/benthompson/status/1273630618891350016 https://mobile.twitter.com/benthompson/status/12736306188913...
- Terretta 6y agoOn the contrary, Apple doesn’t force apps that are selling digital content to fork over 30% of their revenue. That is the “reader” category of apps that are allowed to have an outside subscription, e.g. Netflix, Kindle, Spotify... The apps that must offer the subscription within the app store, such that users benefit from visible and pro-consumer recurring billing practices, are those where you are subscribing to the app’s functionality, not to content.