• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    Have you seen the €0.50 “core tech fee” per app installation/year Apple wants to charge even if the app is installed from a 3rd party store? An app with 2 million users will be expected to pay 41000€ a month, and one with 10 million around 375000€ every single month, and this without counting the transaction fee.

    Of course, if you comply with Apple’s feudal claims then you can stay stuck in the App Store and pay a 30% sales tax (that unlike sales taxes from non-mafia institutions you aren’t allowed to pass to the customers, because obviously non-apple users also have to subsidize Apple users) like a good peasant, they “generously” wave the new fee.

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      9 months ago

      1M users is a huge number. How many as popular apps there will be, ever?

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      9 months ago

      There is no 30% fee anymore. All the hate so far I find entirely unjustified, the changes are all really positive.

      You can argue it can be better, but saying it’s “retaliation” is a bit extreme.

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        9 months ago

        If you don’t “volunteer” to pay the 30% fee you need to pay the 50 cents per I install core tech fee every month, so you have to pay a tax to Apple even if you don’t have your app in the app store. And you still need to pay a 10% fee on payments if the user installed the app from the App Store. A fee, that unlike sales taxes, you can’t pass to the users, so people buying on websites directly still need to subsidize Apple’s (and to be fair Google’s) neo-feudal fiefs.