• kfet@lemmy.ca
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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.