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How do Uber/Lyft etc. get away without paying Apple's 30% tax on in app purchase? I'll be surprised if Apple don't show up one day asking for a big check, ever
by andy_ppp 11y ago
How do Uber/Lyft etc. get away without paying Apple's 30% tax on in app purchase? I'll be surprised if Apple don't show up one day asking for a big check, every month, forever...
EDIT: Thanks for the clarity here, external goods and services are excluded from in app purchase. Makes sense, but surely represents a loop hole... that I think something I'm building might be able to exploit :-)
- loceng 11y agoApple needs to first launch a competing service or acquire one of them before they'd pull that move I imagine?
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- cshenoy 11y agoThe Apple commission is for in-app purchases that are mostly digital goods.
- flipmonk 11y agoBecause you're not buying features or consuming what you're buying through the app. Is Amazon supposed to give 30% of all purchases made through the Amazon app? ofcourse not. If Amazon made additional search features an optional upgrade for the app, I'd imagine Apple would want a piece of that.
- dylanjermiah 11y agoYou can purchase a Kindle, but not the books.
- Jacqued 11y agoI think it has to do with the fact that customer's are paying for an offline service, not something that happens inside the application. Likewise, I don't think e-commerce apps have to hand Apple a 30% cut of everything they sell.
- raverbashing 11y agoDoes this applies to non-digital products and services?
- pbreit 11y agoSounds like you don't know much about the market so good luck with you're loop-hole exploiting product.
- mlesee 11y agoBecause they obtain the user's credit card information independently. Developers who use the CC associated with someone's Apple ID are the ones paying the in-app purchase commission.