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I don’t know about you, but I would find a persistent 20-30% discount on their own website interesting knowledge, especially if it was placed next to an in app

by ericd 6y ago

I don’t know about you, but I would find a persistent 20-30% discount on their own website interesting knowledge, especially if it was placed next to an in app purchase button I was about to hit.

Spivak 6y ago
Well yeah, that’s the point. Of course apps want to use iOS to get customers to the point of sale and then not pay for it. How would you feel about an affiliate program that gave 30% to the referrer but right before purchase had a button that said "buy 30% cheaper without referral commission?"
- ericd 6y ago
  Well, I don’t think people should be forced into Apple’s affiliate program to write software for people’s phone. Apple is using their leverage to force everyone to pay them tolls on sales of all software and things done within that software which had nothing to do with on-store marketing, which I happen to think is wrong.
  - vultour 6y ago
    You're right, Apple should charge all developers per-download bandwidth, and per-month storage fee, and ditch the transaction markup.
    - mikewhy 6y ago
      Don't forget they already charge $99-$299 USD/year.
- inetknght 6y ago
  > How would you feel about an affiliate program that gave 30% to the referrer but right before purchase had a button that said "buy 30% cheaper without referral commission?" I would wonder whether $3 out of a $10 purchase is worth my time to sign up for a different market service. And if it is, great. If it isn't, that's great too. That's the benefit of being pro-consumer. And if the market is consistently not worth that $3 then perhaps the market really isn't beneficial to the customer. If the market's concerned about that then the market needs to be more proactive on behalf of and for the consumer. In many ways, the privacy options that Apple's installed to iOS 14 is along those lines.

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I don’t know about you, but I would find a persistent 20-30% discount on their own website interesting knowledge, especially if it was placed next to an in app

by ericd 6y ago

I don’t know about you, but I would find a persistent 20-30% discount on their own website interesting knowledge, especially if it was placed next to an in app purchase button I was about to hit.

Spivak 6y ago
Well yeah, that’s the point. Of course apps want to use iOS to get customers to the point of sale and then not pay for it. How would you feel about an affiliate program that gave 30% to the referrer but right before purchase had a button that said "buy 30% cheaper without referral commission?"
- ericd 6y ago
  Well, I don’t think people should be forced into Apple’s affiliate program to write software for people’s phone. Apple is using their leverage to force everyone to pay them tolls on sales of all software and things done within that software which had nothing to do with on-store marketing, which I happen to think is wrong.
  - vultour 6y ago
    You're right, Apple should charge all developers per-download bandwidth, and per-month storage fee, and ditch the transaction markup.
    - mikewhy 6y ago
      Don't forget they already charge $99-$299 USD/year.
- inetknght 6y ago
  > How would you feel about an affiliate program that gave 30% to the referrer but right before purchase had a button that said "buy 30% cheaper without referral commission?" I would wonder whether $3 out of a $10 purchase is worth my time to sign up for a different market service. And if it is, great. If it isn't, that's great too. That's the benefit of being pro-consumer. And if the market is consistently not worth that $3 then perhaps the market really isn't beneficial to the customer. If the market's concerned about that then the market needs to be more proactive on behalf of and for the consumer. In many ways, the privacy options that Apple's installed to iOS 14 is along those lines.