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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 months ago (12 children)

The fee will only apply to memberships purchased on Patreon’s iOS app starting November 4th, 2024.

Good, I hope they shed light on Apple's shitfuckery.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Yeah, I actually think this policy is 100% correct and, if more services did this instead of eating the costs, we could have a real discussion about the harm caused by arbitrary fees.

It will likely result in Apple seeking a special deal with Patreon to avoid this mess though. It's really not a good look for Apple especially as they cater themselves to the creatives market.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Until recently, apps were not even allowed to charge less outside their apps than on the app store or to link to outside stores.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We should thank the European Union for that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks European Union

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Merci, union européenne

Hey, let's do it in all official languages of the EU. So far we've had English and French.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The EU (where I live) is a bureaucracy nightmare sometimes, and is often far too removed from citizens. It has a gazillion problems, but as far as data protections and customer rights it does some things half right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I live in the EU and I'm happy we have it, because otherwise we wouldn't have many consumer protection laws (either because my government is stupid or because we wouldn't have enough leverage as a single country).

Many things we now take for granted are only possible thanks to the EU, like the 2-years warranty on electronic/household products.

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