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sounds like reddit want to kill all third party apps which is a bit unfortunate but this business practice is not very uncommon (Apple/Google with their 30% fee
by perfectstorm 3y ago
sounds like reddit want to kill all third party apps which is a bit unfortunate but this business practice is not very uncommon (Apple/Google with their 30% fees).
- wvenable 3y agoI'm not sure how Apple/Google 30% relates? Those companies do a lot to support businesses on their platform. If you don't want to change anything, you get free hosting. For payments, they provide the entire infrastructure to support developers. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement even if the fees are quite high. If Reddit does want to kill all third party apps complaining about how they haven't done a single thing to actually support 3rd party developers is kind of moot. But the point of the protest is how underhanded that is; they would be manipulating users and developers by lying about the whole thing. And if they actually didn't want to kill all third party apps then they still lied and are also incompetent.
- perfectstorm 3y agoThe reason why they provide the payment infrastructure is because they can control everything end to end. Imagine if they allow payments outside the app and expect developers to pay 30% for those transactions. Yeah, that's not going to work. I don't think Apple/Google does payment infrastructure out of good heart. They just want to know how much an app makes and how much commission to take.
- wvenable 3y agoI don't disagree and yet it's still a service that they provide. Dealing with user accounts, payments, refunds, taxes, recurring billing, support, etc is a pain (I know, I've done it).