Better stop calling these X’s “Creators”! When I sit on the bowl I’m also not a Creator, despite both outcomes “mine and theirs” not being so much different…
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Elon Musk Wants Apple to Lower Fees for 'X' Creators
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I'm not sure if my reasoning is sound here guys; but the creators do not have a contract or any kind of agreement with Apple. They create contents and post it on X, earning $ from X alone. Why would Apple be collecting 30% from them? If I got this wrong, will someone with the legal knowledge help educate me?
Because he has a relationship with Tim Cook for some bizarre, inexplicable reason. Apple made an exception to the app name rule for him. He has no real relationship with Pichai.
That and iPhone is where the money is at. iPhone users pay for things.
Well then, problem solved eh Enron?
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I really feel sorry for all these fanboys that think he's amazing.
I've never encountered a more pathetic individual.
I've never encountered a more pathetic individual.
No, that’s a tangible service, like food delivery. There is no fee for that.
Reason obvious why Elon wanted to hang and be buddy with Timmy at Apple Park - intent of later manipulation.
Hope he and his X gets kicked out of Apple Store.
Hope he and his X gets kicked out of Apple Store.
Absolutely.
Virtually 100% of what Musk says about Mars is wrong. What he says about Star ship being transport for people from continent to content is also wrong. He constantly makes statements that couldn’t be more wrong. Hyperloop… Don’t make me fall over laughing. He’s clearly clueless and thinks everyone else is to. He’s lucky he doesn’t talk to me on the air. I’d make a fool out of him in five seconds.
They should only kick him out if he does something stupid like a 3rd party payment system without Apple’s permission.
Oh boy. Elon releasing an X-phone would be a bigger flop than his acquisition of Twitter (so far). If he thinks he can do better than Amazon's Fire Phone or Microsoft's Windows Phone, and when the Android OS is given away for free...lol. He's only about fifteen years behind.
Every New Tesla could come with an X-phone and it'll still flop. And I say this as a new Tesla owner and long TSLA holder. Developers will be wary of signing on with him after seeing the purge at Twitter, so he won't get top-tier talent. If he poaches from other companies he owns, he'll lose more talent (building rockets is way cooler than having to reinvent the wheel because your boss is in a pissing match with Goodyear).
Nonetheless, I hope he does it. Choice is good, even if the competition is going to get dunked on.
He sucks but that's business. It's always better to have that negotiation than not to.
Personally I never purchase anything through the App Store before I try to see whether the developer offers a way to subscribe through their website/the site of the service - it's either 30% cheaper or the same price, but I know they're getting all the money without Apple taking such a huge chunk, so I'm happy. It could've been at least a bit reasonable to get a larger chunk of it if Apple actually helped the devs reach people, but the App Store has gotten super boring and all the featured apps seem to be Evernote and the other apps everyone and their grandma has heard about, we really don't need a new story about the same 3 apps on rotation every week.
Personally I never purchase anything through the App Store before I try to see whether the developer offers a way to subscribe through their website/the site of the service - it's either 30% cheaper or the same price, but I know they're getting all the money without Apple taking such a huge chunk, so I'm happy. It could've been at least a bit reasonable to get a larger chunk of it if Apple actually helped the devs reach people, but the App Store has gotten super boring and all the featured apps seem to be Evernote and the other apps everyone and their grandma has heard about, we really don't need a new story about the same 3 apps on rotation every week.
But how about every new X-phone coming with a Tesla?
Of course Apple won’t do anything without reason, but it’s not far fetched to expect Elon to do something that could cause it. Elon and his kind of personality type don’t play well to others rules I think. We'll see how this will evolve.
I’m pretty sure both Amazon and Facebook did their own phones at one point. Neither one took off.
Rian Johnson perfectly portrayed him in “Glass Onion” with Edward Norton’s character. Well done, Rian, well done.
I’d love to see him start up a phone. Plenty of talent Out there to do such a thing. And he has a clueless fan-base to draw from, sp there would be at least some customers. And he’d likely see a review of the phone by MKBHD and he can advertise it on his lame-X dying platform. Maybe he should make Trump steaks, er a, Musk steaks.
Then you don’t know Cook.
nope. he unbanned plenty of critics like kathy griffin, donald, various journalists who bashed elon but were banned for impersonation. cleared out his unblock list too at one point.
this is some mental gymnastics. Did you even bother to read the article?
This guy now tells apple how to run the show? just ignore.
Twitter or "X" CEO Elon Musk today said that he plans to speak with Apple CEO Tim Cook about lower App Store fees for creators who earn money through subscriptions on the Twitter/X social network.
In a post on creator support, Musk said that he plans to ask Apple to collect 30 percent of the creator fee that Twitter keeps rather than 30 percent of the total fee that a creator on Twitter earns. That would potentially give Apple a much lower cut of the money that Twitter is paying out to creators.
Musk said that Twitter does not plan to collect any fees from creators who earn under $100,000. After the $100k mark, Twitter will collect 10 percent of a creator's earnings, though the first 12 months will be free for all creators. If Apple agreed, Apple would be entitled to 30 percent of the 10 percent cut that Twitter takes from creators earning more than $100k.
Apple collects in-app purchase fees from subscription purchases that are made through the Twitter app on iOS devices. Apple earns 30 percent for the first year of a subscription, and 15 percent for each subsequent year. Apple takes the same cut of all digital purchases on the App Store, and the Cupertino company is not known for making exceptions to its rules.
Musk's request would not work with the current in-app purchase setup as Apple is collecting its fee from each subscriber who pays a creator rather than from the creator directly.
Facebook has protested the fee that Apple collects from the Facebook subscription option for creators, but Apple has not changed its policies. Facebook instead encourages people to support creators by subscribing on the web rather than on a mobile device, which is a method that Musk could use to limit the fees that Apple takes.
Musk has in the past criticized Apple's App Store fees, calling the cut that Apple collects "definitely not ok" and likening it to a "30% tax on the internet."
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