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Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, that's kinda exactly what I said, Apple taking a 30% cut of any transaction that occurs on their devices/on apps downloaded from their store makes no sense, though I will add that Patreon takes a 8 - 12% cut depending on how much support they give the creator. As far as Steam goes, to my knowledge they don't take a cut out of in game purchases, only purchases that occur strictly on their platform. (Also I don't think they charge everyone the 30%)

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I mean, that's kinda exactly what I said

Yes, I'm agreeing with you and expanding on that, showing where the lines blur. Apple wants to get 30% of everything when it's only reasonable (and supported by historical practice) to get 30% of actual purchase of software. The history of the Apple App Store is an expansion beyond the original, relatively reasonable 30% cut on that narrow category, quietly spread out to a bunch of new categories that don't actually resemble the previous category.

Apple knows they can't take a 30% cut of every Uber fare or Doordash order or Amazon purchase of physical goods, and they don't try to. It's the categories in between where their policies start to look arbitrary.

And now Patreon in the crosshairs shows just how twisted it's gotten. Like I was saying, I see Patreon as something more like PayPal than, like, Netflix.