Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable their ‘tip’ functions

Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by pdelbarba on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:11PM (#14378071)

Am I the only one here who thinks Apple/Google should not be able to skim more than a token 1-3% fee off transactions? Both already make enough money off their customers and they effectively have a duopoly on mobile platforms. If there were dozens of app stores (more like repositories at that point) that you could easily search across, then the market would be self regulating. I don't think that's the case right now.

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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by prostoalex on Friday May 19, 2017 @03:09PM (#14378527)

It seems expensive to get set up in every supported country https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204411 https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/tabl... with requirements for a business entity, money processing licenses, etc., and that's before hooking up to local payment methods (credit cards, prepaid cards, mobile top-ups) and paying their fees.

Paypal or some other large entity could probably do this, though.

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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by Steko on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:57PM (#14380822)

Walmart and Amazon make lots of money too, let's make it so they can't mark stuff up more than 1-3%.

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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by hkmurakami on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:18PM (#14378130)

well, "should vs can"

In the realm of "should", I'm afraid regulation is your only bet.

Otherwise obviously any company will take whatever % they think will get them the maximum long term profit

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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by soared on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:22PM (#14378167)

"Already making enough money" sounds like a contradiction :)

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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by pdelbarba on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:25PM (#14378189)

Yea, but I mean when you have $256 BILLION sitting around doing nothing you can probably afford to stop squeezing the hell out of artists and developers.

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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by subterfudge4 on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:19PM (#14378141)

> have a duopoly on mobile platforms

There ARE dozens of app stores. These two are very very strong ones. The thing is how long Apple and Google and continue to squeeze people until someone will come up with a clever trick to bypass their payment system.

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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by pdelbarba on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:23PM (#14378176)

Sure there are alternatives on Android and the Windows phone platform (which nobody uses because running multiple app stores is cumbersome) but Apple has their entire ecosystem, silicon to cat videos, locked down hard.

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