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Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store (www.theverge.com)
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[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s probably just like shopping malls. Big brands pay less rent because they drive more people to the mall and thus have more leverage.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yep. It just sucks when you are a smaller developer. I was told by Google Play Developer support I can't make the app I wanted to do, and no, the fact other big apps are allowed to do the exact same thing doesn't matter.