Go to your supermarket. Ask them how much of the price of a litre of milk goes where. They'll laugh at you.
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The supermarket wouldn’t ban you from selling milk there if you made that info available though.
Live Events are also not scalable. To do a live event takes time and it is not really an electronic product if you really think about it. It is more like a physical event just done via conference.
Also, these paid online events are only popular right now because of the pandemic. It is an alternative to the normal business operations. So is Apple profiting off small businesses due to a pandemic?
Also, these paid online events are only popular right now because of the pandemic. It is an alternative to the normal business operations. So is Apple profiting off small businesses due to a pandemic?
I’ve DEFINITELY seen gas station chains charge less by paying cash instead of by credit card.
They are not being fully honest here, FB have only agreed to provide this service to small businesses for free for a year at which point they will also be charging small business a % to use the service. What they are doing now is conditioning people to make payments outside of the app, so when it come time for FB to start charging for their service they don't have to give apple their 30% cut
Yes they might laugh but what your forgetting is that the customer has a right to know. If the staff do not know then they are required to give you a contact address of someone who does, they just cannot simply dismiss your enquiry. Usually it requires an email being sent to head office. Just because people do not ask does not mean knowing is not allowed.
Oh, that'll be why they have a statement on ask the other platforms saying they up to 4% of the fee will go to credit card fees?
Oh, wait...
Hey, you're the one who made the point!
So in this case would agree that Spotify should put a pop up in their app informing their users how much of the $9.99 fee goes to the artist? or should Walmart add a sticker to all their milk cartons to inform their customers how much is paid to the milk farmers?
I can only assume you've never tried to use their platform to advertise, then. I used to belong to a community outreach group with very very shallow pockets: FB charged us a relative kings-fortune and made it damn near impossible to nail the right audience for our ads.
Thats actually a good point.
Dissapointing to see Apple reach down to Walmart’s level with their predatory business practices in 2020.
I assume you dont like Walmart and therefore dont shop there?
But for how long? It won’t be long before people start criticising the lower rate for being to high (relative to 0%) and we get this whole fracas all over again.
No point kicking the can down the road. Better for Apple to draw the line in the sand and make its stand here and now. If it’s a fight all these companies want, then it’s a fight they will all get.
Remember when people used to say that Apple was too reliant on third party services like google and Facebook? Well, maybe it’s time to see who is stronger. Apple, or everyone else?
Apple revoked Facebook and Google’s enterprise certificates a year ago. They don’t seem to have a problem enforcing their rules.
Yeah, it's irrelevant. Do you think anybody cares if $3 of your $10 is going to either Apple or Facebook?
I am constantly amazed at all the "rights" people assume they have. Please show me where in the law it says anyone has a "right" to know the breakdown of how a payment for service or product is divided between companies.
People saying that companies breaking rules they agreed to are guilty should really rethink their point of view. I presume most of viewers here come from USA. There were laws and rules not long ago in your country that allowed for slavery and apartheid. Only breaking those rules resulted in them being taken down. I know it's an exaggeration but how else do you make change?
Also, from what I gather Facebook doesn't take a cent from those IAPs. They all go to small businesses. Therefore people cheering Apple showing middle finger here are actually cheering small businesses being ripped off by the largest corporation in the world.
Also, from what I gather Facebook doesn't take a cent from those IAPs. They all go to small businesses. Therefore people cheering Apple showing middle finger here are actually cheering small businesses being ripped off by the largest corporation in the world.
For 1 year, after which the small companies will be subject to the full charge. This is little more than a marketing stunt by FB.
Well, the receivers of the payment may need all the money they can get at the moment with the less customers and the recession happening and all 🙄
Facebook has the right to talk about it in public, but not inside the app. Like most e-commerce companies, Apple has an anti-circumvention clause in their contract. 3rd parties aren't allowed to encourage purchases outside the app OR attempt to discourage purchases inside the app. Facebook's message about Apple's 30% cut in the app was an attempt to discourage a purchase in the app.
If you get an apple device with just the services apple can provide you’re not getting a very compelling product compared to other alternatives.But for how long? It won’t be long before people start criticising the lower rate for being to high (relative to 0%) and we get this whole fracas all over again.
No point kicking the can down the road. Better for Apple to draw the line in the sand and make its stand here and now. If it’s a fight all these companies want, then it’s a fight they will all get.
Remember when people used to say that Apple was too reliant on third party services like google and Facebook? Well, maybe it’s time to see who is stronger. Apple, or everyone else?
But by all means, let all this corporations continue the dick measure contest. It’ll give fanboys something to be proud of.
Definitely. I'm sure we'll see a few more big companies pile on before this is finally resolved.