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It’s interesting how TikTok and Twitter don’t have the same complaint, apparently. They already use in-app purchases for this functionality. So it really is ju
by dangus 4y ago
It’s interesting how TikTok and Twitter don’t have the same complaint, apparently. They already use in-app purchases for this functionality.
So it really is just Meta complaining.
Zuck, I thought the Metaverse is the future? We won’t even need phones soon, why does this matter? Phones are in the legacy pancake reality, soon to be deprecated. We’ll all be on your Oculus – sorry, Meta App Store.
Bad jokes aside, I don’t trust either Meta or Apple to give us a straight story on this issue.
My gut feeling is that these “boosts” are pure profit with zero COGS and Facebook should do perfectly fine giving Apple their share of the spoils. The App Store should be regulated but we’ll never get that with our political system.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago> The difference for Facebook and Instagram is that they currently don’t use Apple’s in-app purchase system for boosting posts while Twitter, TikTok, and others do. I’m told that, several years ago, Apple pressured Facebook to start routing these boosted post payments through the App Store and Facebook resisted.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoToday it's Meta, tomorrow it's your business model. Not sure this is the future of computing I want.
- dangus 4y agoI don’t want it either, to be clear. But I also don’t sympathize with Meta’s whining.