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A comment on Apple, Epic, and the App Store.

Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by aaanotherhnfolk on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:51PM (#24191915)
Simplest compromise I've heard so far is for Apple's cut to scale with size of IAP/subscription.

30% cut starting at $0.99 purchases. As mentioned this barely covers processing fees.

20% cut starting at $9.99.

10% cut starting at $49.99.

Not only does this fix the Epic, Netflix, Hey, etc issue where high value or high volume txns get unfairly middlemanned by Apple. It also incentivizes developers away from the "race to the bottom" effect that made everything a crummy $0.99 microtransaction in the first place.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by huhtenberg on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:54PM (#24191956)
The simplest compromise is to let me easily install what I need from whatever source I want on the goddamn hardware that I own. The rest will follow from that.
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