[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/24/ubers-ka...
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Why are they doing this? Because companies are raising vastly more money and at a faster speed than going the traditional VC or even IPO route right now. The strategy: Make up any reason and do it.
I think the decentralized, semi-anonymous, open source development route can benefit from this approach better in the long term than a centralized for profit company can.
Games may also end up being some of the biggest success stories. When you can actually prove that something is rare, and even potentially decentralize the gameplay, it presents interesting options for anti-cheating and proof of value. What is dumber: crypto kitties or con artists making hundreds of millions of dollars off sloppy copy and pasted documents?
How come, for example, they don't demand their cut from Monzo person to person transfers?
>3.1.5 (a) Physical Goods and Services Outside of the App: If your app enables people to purchase goods or services that will be consumed outside of the app, you must use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments, such as Apple Pay or traditional credit card entry.
But if this applies to Bandcamp, then it would equally apply to Amazon... So I don't know.
This is what has stopped me from doing payment in my apps until now - you never know when some apple or google employee decides to smash you in the face with the ban hammer.