I understand your frustrations and support the move for developers to make a better cut but I don't see this being regulated any time soon, heck look how bad derivatives hurt the economy and the game barely changed on wallstreet...
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I understand your frustrations and support the move for developers to make a better cut but I don't see this being regulated any time soon, heck look how bad derivatives hurt the economy and the game barely changed on wallstreet...
So? You can chosoe not to use that service at that time. Facebook says they are waiving the fee while Corona virus restrictions are in place, these are events that normally would be held in person by these small businesses.
Not everything Facebook does has to be evil.
Yeah 30% is astronomically high. I sell stuff regularly on eBay and I think their 10% final value fee is sort of ridiculous but I can’t imagine paying 30%.
I just sold a Titan RTX on eBay for $2,250 and eBay took $225. 30% would have them taking $675.
Sorry, this is Apple's store. It's up to them to decide what "makes sense".
When you BUILD an online store you can set the commission.
Facebook as it originally was designed, sure no problem let them exist....Facebook's overreaching control and breaking people's privacy along with straight out spying, heck no!
lol love a company, i love my wife, kids, parents, but not a stupid greedy company that love wallets.
That argument works, until it doesn't after a court declares you a monopoly.
Apple does it for all the free apps they don't get a commission from.
Epic has their own online store. Many others would build out their own online stores too. The problem is Apple won't let iOS uses download and install apps directly from them. You HAVE to use the Apple App store.
Apple is forcing devs to use the apple iOS app store. Some larger devs would rather create their own store to sell to users directly.
Like how the Mafia force small stores to pay for protection they don't want.
The headline here is to wordy. Let me fix it:
Facebook is Damaging
Facebook is Damaging
Facebook is claiming that Apple is hurting small business owners, but Facebook hides posts from people that have liked your Page unless you pay to promote your posts....
That's a Red herring
I'm too lazy to do the math, but I imagine the scenario that you sell it on eBay and they take 10%, but then if the person used an iPhone to make the purchase, imagine if you had to give 30% to Apple, and if the buyer used Paypal or a credit card that's another 5% or so, then it's considered income and so the government wants it's percentage as well. Would you even have any money left after selling that to buy a coffee?
I'm surprised that the AT&T's, the Verizons, don't argue that Apple gets money claiming they enable it via their platform, but our networks make it happen just as much so maybe we should take 30% of all cellular transactions too.
Right. Because the developers that can't build out their own would have to compete with Epic and their own store. So you charge everyone the same percentage - especially if they could do it on their own - to ensure it's level for those who can't.
Cell phone companies used to actually for things like music.... wasn't it Apple put their foot down and said you can't collect a tax on purchases if you want our phones?
What? That barely even makes sense .... and when it does, it doesn't make logical sense. Epic selling their software outside of the App Store doesn't hurt those in the App Store.... it makes it harder to find Epic software.
None of these companies (Epic, Spotify, etc) are being charged 30%. That was first year only and that was years ago.
Anyone who maintains this 30% fixed commission myth is either a misinformed noob or being dishonest because all the facts are well known.
Yup. The original iPhone broke the grip carrier had on hardware:
1. No carrier logo on the hardware.
2. Device managed voicemail.
3. No subsidies
4. No carrier only tech support.
With iOS 2 came no carrier involvement with apps.
Jeez - all any of them need to do is sell on their website and just log in through the app. All they are doing is using the App Store to access their web services, Apple just doesn't want them using it to advertise.
Epic not paying Apple their 30% means that they can charge less and make more. This gives Epic an advantage over a new studio that can't do that.