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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by nodamage on Thursday September 24, 2020 @08:02PM (#24585102)
Framing the 30% as "payment processing" is a fundamentally flawed comparison. Apple builds the entire ecosystem and suite of tools that developers use to actually make apps for the iPhone.

Visa and Mastercard only provide payment processing, they don't provide the equivalent of the iOS SDKs, Xcode, the App Store, etc., to their merchants.

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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by donmcronald on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:29PM (#24586314)
I think there's some value in that tooling for building the apps, but for IAPs Apple's not doing anything more than payment processing. There's nothing special or difficult about processing an IAP and there would be a line of competitors around the block to do it for <5% if they were allowed to.
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