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What bothers me is that you can already avoid paying the 30% to Apple by using a 3rd party payment processor. You just can’t tell your customers about that opti
by elpool2 5y ago
What bothers me is that you can already avoid paying the 30% to Apple by using a 3rd party payment processor. You just can’t tell your customers about that option or link to it. So it’s not really a commission on buying digital goods or on use of the App Store. I get that Apple can come up with whatever arbitrary fee structure they want, but when it becomes so divorced from the value you’re actually getting in return it starts to feel pretty anti-competitive.
- musicale 5y ago> you can already avoid paying the 30% to Apple by using a 3rd party payment processor. You just can’t tell your customers about that option or link to it. Presumably Apple will now be highly motivated to close the loophole and require third party payment processors to pay a commission to Apple.
- dwaite 5y agoApple had a firewall around telling customers about cheaper options because they only wanted to collect revenue between two easy-to-audit sources - app purchases and IAP. Now, they will likely go after commissions to pay their commissions when they are collected externally. This judge's ruling may wind up costing some developers a lot more money.